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to overbook
01
to sell more tickets or accept more reservations than the available number of seats, rooms, etc.
Grammatical Information
Composition
derived
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
overbook
3rd person singular
overbooks
Present participle
overbooking
Past simple
overbooked
Past participle
overbooked
Examples
The airline overbooked the flight, causing passengers to be bumped off.
Lexical Tree
overbook
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