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Booking vs Allocation - What's the difference?

booking | allocation |

As nouns the difference between booking and allocation

is that booking is the act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting while allocation is the process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.

As a verb booking

is present participle of lang=en.

booking

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act or process of writing something down in a book or books, e.g. in accounting.
  • A reservation for a service, such as accommodation in an hotel.
  • The engagement of a performer for a particular performance.
  • (sports) The issuing of a caution which is usually written down in a book, and results in a yellow card or (after two bookings) a red card, that is to say, the player is sent from the field of play.
  • (legal) The process of photographing, fingerprinting and recording identifying data of a suspect following arrest.

    • Derived terms

    * booking clerk * booking office

    See also

    * inscription

    allocation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process or procedure for allocating things, especially money or other resources.
    • The allocation of new permits is on a first-come, first-served basis.

    Derived terms

    * allocational

    Anagrams

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