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What (who) is overbook - definition
overbook
¦ verb accept more reservations for (a flight or hotel) than there is room for.
overbook
(overbooks, overbooking, overbooked)
If an organization such as an airline or a theatre company overbooks, they sell more tickets than they have places for.
Planes are crowded, airlines overbook, and departures are almost never on time.
VERB: V, also V n
Examples of use of overbook
1. So that you will not find yourself in this irritating situation, TheMarker has prepared the complete guide to overbooking: Many companies openly overbook.
2. "Not only did they overbook, they then made no real effort to get us on to the flight when we were obviously in distress.
3. "The tickets were the draw to get them in, but I don‘t think that was what kept them here." Staffers at Boost Mobile RockCorps use a formula to ensure they don‘t overbook events.
4. Now, before readers of the Daily Mail overbook planes to the U.S. to punch this Steven Grasse, let me explain that his book is quite funny – maybe even intentionally so.
5. By Zohar Blumenkrantz Since flight is the most expensive means of transportation, the legislator enacted special regulations allowing airlines to overbook passengers and then refuse to let passengers board due to overbooking, according to attorney Zeev Friedman of the Israel Consumer Council.