"block booking" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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          "text": "The restaurant has a block booking for Saturday night.",
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        "The reservation of a large number of hotel rooms, tickets, etc. at one time."
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      "glosses": [
        "The sale of multiple films to a theater as a unit, sight unseen, allowing the studio to package inferior films with more popular ones."
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          "theater",
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          "sight unseen",
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        "(film industry, historical) The sale of multiple films to a theater as a unit, sight unseen, allowing the studio to package inferior films with more popular ones."
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        "uncountable"
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    "block booking"
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "The reservation of a large number of hotel rooms, tickets, etc. at one time."
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