block booking

短语

发音

UK /ˌblɒk ˈbʊkɪŋ/
US /ˌblɑk ˈbʊkɪŋ/

词形变化

block bookings 复数

别名

block-booking

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The reservation of a large number of hotel rooms, tickets, or other items at one time; (countable) an instance of this.

    不可数 可数

    The restaurant has a block booking for Saturday night.

  2. 2.

    The sale of multiple films by a film studio to a theater as a unit, without the latter knowing much about them, allowing the studio to package less popular films with more popular ones. The Supreme Court of the United States determined the practice to be in violation of antitrust law in 1948.

    美国 历史 不可数 媒体 可数

词源

From block (“apportionment or grouping of like things treated together as a unit”, noun) + booking (noun).

来源：wiktionary