Booking vs Vacancy - What's the difference?
booking | vacancy |
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.
An unoccupied position or job.
An available room in a hotel; guest house, etc.
Empty space.
*1993 , James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love , Book II:
*:Sky was set above earth, land ringed with sea, / Chaos retired to its own vacancy [...].
Lack of intelligence or understanding.
(physics) A defect in a crystal caused by the absence of an atom in a lattice
