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Definition of Overbook
1. Verb. To sell or guarantee more seats for for an event than actually exist. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Overbook
1. to issue reservations in excess of the space available [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overbook
Literary usage of Overbook
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"These two cessions by the Sultans of Brunei and Sulu place the company which
Baron de overbook represents in possession of the whole North of Borneo, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... therefore, reverted to the Italian art of the fifteenth century (the overbook
school). These ideas exercised an important influence upon the Christian ..."
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