overbook

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verb

To sell or guarantee more seats for (an event) than actually exist.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verboverbook (third-person singular simple present overbooks, present participle overbooking, simple past and past participle overbooked)

present singular third person overbooks · participle present overbooking · participle past overbooked · past overbooked

  1. transitiveTo sell or guarantee more seats for (an event) than actually exist.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Englishbook
  8. Englishoverbook

From over- + book.

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Translations

French overbooker
  • overbookerto sell inexistant seats
Polish sprzedawać za dużo miejsc, sprzedać za dużo miejsc
  • sprzedawać za dużo miejscto sell inexistant seats
  • sprzedać za dużo miejscto sell inexistant seats
Portuguese superlotar
  • superlotarto sell inexistant seats
Spanish overbuquear, sobrevender
  • overbuquearto sell inexistant seats
  • sobrevenderto sell inexistant seats
  • sobrellenarto sell inexistant seats
Cite this entry
APA

overbook. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overbook

MLA

“overbook.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overbook. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overbook,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overbook.

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