overbook

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ book.

Verb

overbook (third-person singular simple present overbooks, present participle overbooking, simple past and past participle overbooked)

1. (transitive) To sell or guarantee more seats for (an event) than actually exist.

Translations

to sell inexistant seats

• French: overbooker (fr)
• Portuguese: superlotar (pt)
• Spanish: overbuquear (United States), sobrevender (es), sobrellenar (es)
• Walloon: sorbouker (wa), sorrezierver (wa), sorritni

See also

• underbook