outbook

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

out- +‎ book

Verb[edit]

outbook (third-person singular simple present outbooks, present participle outbooking, simple past and past participle outbooked)

  1. (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.
  2. (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.