double booking
Two appointments overlap
Double booking is scheduling two conflicting commitments for the same time.
It can be accidental—a calendar mix-up—or deliberate, as when airlines sell more seats than exist, expecting some passengers won't show.
I double-booked myself and had to cancel dinner.
The noun form describes either the practice or a specific instance of it.
- overbookingAccepting excess reservations
- schedulePlan of timed events
- scheduling conflictCompeting time demands
- conflictOpposition between parties
- reservationAdvance arrangement to hold
appointment · calendar · clash · overlap · hotel · front desk · airline · mistake · error · confusion · receptionist · reschedule · waitlist · apology · frustrated · damage control · overlapping · time slot
- booking errorsoverbooking, wrong date, wrong time, wrong location, calendar conflict
- calendar conflictsoverlap, overbooking
- scheduling errorsoverbooking, missed deadline, wrong time, wrong date, overlap
- Common Mistakesprocrastination, forgetting, oversight, miscalculation, rushing
- everyday mistakesslip, typos, trip, spelling errors, fall
- meeting problemsno decisions, interrupting, rambling, off-topic, tangents
availability status
double bookingvacancy
Unoccupied space or position
cancellation · underbooked · no-show · open table · wide open
double, booking, book, booked, books, bookable, doubled, doubles, doubling