"overbook" meaning in All languages combined

See overbook on Wiktionary

Verb [English]

Forms: overbooks [present, singular, third-person], overbooking [participle, present], overbooked [participle, past], overbooked [past]
Etymology: From over- + book. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|over|book}} over- + book Head templates: {{en-verb}} overbook (third-person singular simple present overbooks, present participle overbooking, simple past and past participle overbooked)
  1. (transitive) To sell or guarantee more seats for (an event) than actually exist. Tags: transitive Related terms: underbook Translations (to sell inexistant seats): overbooker (French), superlotar (Portuguese), overbuquear [US] (Spanish), sobrevender (Spanish), sobrellenar (Spanish), sorbouker (Walloon), sorrezierver (Walloon), sorritni (Walloon)

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To sell or guarantee more seats for (an event) than actually exist."
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      "sense": "to sell inexistant seats",
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      "sense": "to sell inexistant seats",
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      "sense": "to sell inexistant seats",
      "word": "sorrezierver"
    },
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      "sense": "to sell inexistant seats",
      "word": "sorritni"
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