Booking or Reservation - What's the difference?
booking | reservation |
The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.
A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel.
The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
(sports) The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play.
(legal) The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording identifying data of a suspect following arrest.
The act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.
Something that is withheld or kept back.
A limiting qualification (often used in the plural).
(US) A tract of land set apart by the US government for the use of a Native American people; Indian reservation (compare Canadian (reserve)).
An arrangement by which accommodation or transport arrangements are secured in advance.
(UK) The area which separates opposing lanes of traffic on a divided motorway.
(India) The setting aside of a certain percentage of vacancies in government institutions for members of backward and underrepresented communities (defined primarily by caste and tribe).
Reservation is a synonym of booking.
As nouns the difference between booking and reservation
is that booking is the act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting while reservation is the act of reserving, withholding or keeping back.As a verb booking
is present participle of lang=en.booking
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* booking clerk * booking officeSee also
* inscriptionreservation
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Noun
(en noun)- I have reservations about your intentions.
