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outbooking

outbooking is the present participle and gerund of outbook.

Meaning of outbook

Verb

outbook (third-person singular simple present outbooks, present participle outbooking, simple past and past participle outbooked)

  1. (transitive) To achieve more bookings than someone or something.
    • Supervising the front desk, she regularly outbooked her peers by £1,000 a night.1990, Caterer & Hotelkeeper, volume 183, page 42
  2. (transitive) To surpass in one's knowledge of book moves.
    • Then on move 13, Deep Thought II surprisingly found itself outbooked and in a difficult position.2013, Monty Newborn, Deep Blue: An Artificial Intelligence Milestone, page 76

Questions about outbooking

What is outbooking the present participle and gerund of?
Outbooking is the present participle and gerund of outbook.

Words near outbooking in the dictionary

  1. outboobed
  2. outboobing
  3. outboobs
  4. outbook
  5. outbooked
  6. outbooking
  7. outbooks
  8. outbooze
  9. outboozed
  10. outboozes
  11. outboozing

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