block booking
The reservation of a large number of hotel rooms, tickets, or other items at one timeThe reservation of a large number of hotel rooms, tickets, or other items at one time; (countable) an instance of this.
Meaning
2 senses(uncountable)The reservation of a large number of hotel rooms, tickets, or other items at one time; (countable) an instance of this.
The restaurant has a block booking for Saturday night.
(US, historical, uncountable)The sale of multiple films by a film studio to a theater as a unit, without the latter knowing much about them, allowing the studio to package less popular films with more popular ones. The Supreme Court of the United States determined the practice to be in violation of antitrust law in 1948.
Origin
From block (“apportionment or grouping of like things treated together as a unit”, noun) +From block (“apportionment or grouping of like things treated together as a unit”, noun) + booking (noun).
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Forms
plural: block bookingsWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable