booker
Americannoun
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bookers
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a person who books a service for another person.
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a person who books a ticket or makes a reservation.
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a person who arranges for a performer to make an appearance, often at a live event or media production.
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Joni Raphaella, the booker and curator at Market Hotel in Brooklyn, N.Y., said she had a feeling 2016 would come back around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026
I’m a direct booker most of the time, but that couldn’t be beat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
"There are fewer and fewer plus-size models on the runways," Aude Perceval, a booker at Plus Agency, a pioneer in plus-size modeling in France, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025
Fans had been dying to see a feud between WWE and WCW, and Nash and Hall, under the guidance of booker Eric Bischoff, were hinting that that was happening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2025
At intervals the measurer went his round from bin to bin, accompanied by the booker, who entered first in his own book and then in the hopper's the number of bushels picked.
From Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
Guest entertainers are generally expected to perform multiple shows for each sailing, so bookers want to see some range.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 30, 2026
After an early run as a rapper called the “Doctor of Thuganomics,” WWE bookers presumably looked at Cena for the first time and recast him in the role of a super-powered jarhead.
From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2025
If actors, talent bookers, and studio executives cannot hold the line now, at this very moment, the battle to preserve the humanity inherent to art will be irredeemably set back.
From Slate ● Oct. 1, 2025
Added to which, it can be increasingly difficult for bookers to get good guests, and not just because they have four shows a week to fill.
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2025
Sending all these copies made of course a great deal of work for scribes or "bookers," as we may render the old "bóceras," the copyists who had to write out all their books by hand.
From Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days by Emily Hickey
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