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Idiom

double booked

Meaning

Of a single resource, reserved for two different users at the same time.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“I am double booked for my meetings today.”

“I cannot attend your lunch because I am double booked with a client meeting at the same time.”

“The conference organizer apologized profusely after realizing the main hall was double booked for both the keynote speech and the awards ceremony.”

Examples

simple

“I am double booked for my meetings today.”

contextual

“I cannot attend your lunch because I am double booked with a client meeting at the same time.”

complex

“The conference organizer apologized profusely after realizing the main hall was double booked for both the keynote speech and the awards ceremony.”

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