fully booked
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- adjective
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completamente reservado
- No, sorry, we're fully booked.
- the hotel is fully booked
- the rooms are fully booked
- already fully booked
Examples
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The Gifford Arms is fully booked, for the week.
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All our doubles were fully booked.
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First class was fully booked.
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With Christmas, everywhere is fully booked.
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Still, the theater was fully booked.
Fiction book (2001) -
No, I'm afraid we're fully booked.
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We are fully booked through the grand-opening gala, but I'll let you know if anything opens up.
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We're fully booked, madam.
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We’re fully booked.
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I'm sorry, but the restaurant is fully booked for this evening.
Synonyms
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2.1
There are no tickets or items left to buy
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1.3
Full of people with no room left
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4.9
Completely full of people or things with no space left
An event that sells all its tickets
Having more people who want something than there are places or tickets
Reserved in advance so it is not available for others
Very full after a large meal or in a crowded place
Antonyms
How Full
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective 'fully booked' is directly compositional: 'fully' (completely) modifies 'booked' (reserved), yielding the straightforward meaning 'completely reserved / no vacancies.' This intensifier + past-participle adjective pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows regular English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase fully booked comes from old inns where owners wrote each reservation in a book; when every room had a name written the inn was booked, and when every space in the book was filled it was fully booked. That's why today fully booked means 'no places' or 'no vacancies' left.