Spanish Conversation · Level 130
60 words
Spanish word
overbooking
Pronunciation
IPA/oβeɾˈβukin/
Meaning
- masculine nounoverbooking
Example
La aerolínea hizo overbooking y no hubo asientos para todos.
The airline overbooked and there were not enough seats for everyone.
More examples
¿Tu vuelo tiene overbooking o tu reserva está garantizada?
Does your flight have overbooking or is your reservation guaranteed?
Core concept
Selling more tickets or rooms than exist.
Common phrases
política de overbooking
overbooking policy
compensación por overbooking
compensation for overbooking
overbooking en vuelos
overbooking on flights
Similar words
sobreventa: Commercial overselling of seats or rooms that makes demand exceed the supply on hand.
sobresuscripción: Demand for places exceeds the fixed quota, generating more registrants than positions.
sobreservación: Accepting excessive advance bookings, resulting in confirmed reservations that outstrip capacity.
Definition in Spanish
Práctica de aceptar más reservas o billetes que las plazas disponibles, de modo que algunos clientes quedan sin asiento o habitación.
Word origin
Borrowed directly from English and built from over + book, the term keeps the literal idea of booking past capacity and is interchangeable with the Spanish sobreventa in many contexts.
Usage tips
- The term is used both as a noun and via phrases like hacer overbooking or less formally overbookear, though sobrevender is the standard native verb.
Opposites
- reserva garantizadaguaranteed reservationnoun
Related words
- overbookearoverbookverb