Rebooks

Part of speech: verb, noun

Definitions

1. Makes a new reservation for a flight, hotel room, or appointment after the earlier booking has been cancelled or changed
2. Arranges a fresh booking for a seat, room, or time slot, usually because the original plans fell through
3. Reserves again a place on a flight, train, or in a venue, typically replacing a previous reservation that was altered

Etymology: "Rebooks" is the third-person singular present form of "rebook", so it describes what someone does when they book a traveller onto a new flight, room or appointment in place of an earlier one. The verb is simply "re-" attached to "book", and the "book" part has a longer story: it descends from Old English "bōc", a word for a written document, which was related to the tree name "beech" because early writing was often carved into beechwood tablets. The prefix "re-" has come into English by a longer route. It goes back to a Proto-Italic form and then to Latin "re-", meaning "again" or "back", passed through Old French "re-" into Middle English. English speakers therefore had two inherited pieces to join together, one Germanic and one Romance, and "rebook" is an ordinary combination of the two.

Synonyms: reschedule

Antonyms: cancel