overbook

English

Etymology

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)
• Walloon: sorbouker (wa), sorrezierver (wa), sorritni

See also

• underbook