outbook
See also: out-book
English
Verb
outbook (third-person singular simple present outbooks, present participle outbooking, simple past and past participle outbooked)
- (transitive) To achieve more bookings than someone or something.
- 1990, Caterer & Hotelkeeper, volume 183, page 42:
- Supervising the front desk, she regularly outbooked her peers by £1,000 a night.
- (transitive, chess) To surpass in one's knowledge of book moves.
- 2013, Monty Newborn, Deep Blue: An Artificial Intelligence Milestone, page 76:
- Then on move 13, Deep Thought II surprisingly found itself outbooked and in a difficult position.
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