Usually means: Selling more reservations than capacity.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word overbooking:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. overbooking: Merriam-Webster
  2. overbooking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. overbooking: Wordnik
  4. overbooking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. overbooking: Wiktionary
  6. overbooking: Dictionary.com
  7. Overbooking: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. overbooking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. overbooking: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. overbooking: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See overbook as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (overbooking)

▸ noun:  An instance of selling or guaranteeing more seats than are available.

Similar:
sellout, oversale, overtrading, upsale, ticketing, channel stuffing, upsell, front running, stockout, rain check, more...

Opposite:
underbooking, vacancy, availability

Types:
double booking, triple booking, quadruple booking, more...

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Similar:
sellout, oversale, overtrading, upsale, ticketing, channel stuffing, upsell, front running, stockout, rain check, more...

Opposite:
underbooking, vacancy, availability

Types:
double booking, triple booking, quadruple booking, more...



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