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bookable

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
Proto-Germanic *bōks
Proto-West Germanic *bōk
Old English bōc
Middle English bok
English book
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlom
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰlis
Proto-Italic *-ðlis
Latin -bilis
Latin -ābilis
Old French -ablebor.
Middle English -able
English -able
English bookable

    From book + -able.

    Adjective

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    bookable (not comparable)

    1. Able to be booked or reserved.
      All the seats for the show are bookable.
    2. Worth booking; likely to attract a large audience or similar.
      • 2013, Trav S.D., Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies:
        The deception made the act highly bookable, and the team worked the Poli Circuit for many months, finally breaking up over “creative differences.”
    3. (UK, sports) Warranting a booking (a yellow card).
      The player was sent off for two bookable offences.

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