booking clerk
- noun
- /ˈbʊkɪŋ klɜrk/
:
agente de reservas
- The booking clerk at the theater informed us that all the seats were already sold out.
Examples
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I'd like to speak to the booking clerk, please.
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'Yeah, but, well, I just spoke to the booking clerk' 'and he said your other appointment had been cancelled.'
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That man looked like a railway station booking clerk.
Fiction book (2002) -
When he saw me, the booking clerk nodded his head the way he would if he had asked, "What?"
Fiction book (2002) -
The booking clerk helped me find affordable tickets for the concert.
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After waiting in line, I finally spoke with the booking clerk about my hotel reservation.
Synonyms
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2.1
A person who sells tickets for events or travel
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'booking' (a reservation) + 'clerk' (an employee who handles customer transactions), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a clerk who handles bookings. This noun–noun/modifier pattern is common in English and across many languages, making the construction readily transparent to learners.
Etymology
Booking clerk comes from a simple scene: a clerk was a person who wrote names in a large book, and a booking was the note that a seat or ticket was saved. So a booking clerk is literally the person who writes down and sells tickets, which is why the phrase now means 'a person who sells tickets or handles reservations'.