double-booked
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- adjective
- /ˈdʌbəlˈbʊkt/
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doble reserva
- We also received complaints about minor but annoying performance issues: several instances of double-booked rooms arose, for example, and in other cases room reservations apparently disappeared from the system.
Examples
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However, upon arrival, they found the table was double booked.
Academic text (2018) -
And we had been double booked at the same exact moment.
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Yeah, I'm double booked, and frankly, the next guy has potential.
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Just today, he said a guy fitting our description came in complaining about being double booked in the Marine Merchants' Union Hall.
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Our room was double-booked, and they've given us the most extraordinary suite.
Fiction book (1994) -
Uh, we have our big fall musical coming up, but the auditorium is double-booked with the flamenco dance club.
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Jeremy, it seems like the flamenco dancers and drama club have double-booked the auditorium for the same three days.
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When we arrived at the restaurant, we found that our table was double-booked with another party.
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I realized I was double-booked for meetings, so I had to reschedule one of them.
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The conference room is double-booked, with two different groups needing it at the same time.
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Etymology
Double-booked comes from the idea of writing two appointments into the same 'book' or schedule. The part double means 'two' and booked comes from 'to write down or reserve', so to be double-booked is to have two reservations at the same time.