block booking in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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I.book [Brit bʊk, Am bʊk] N

III.book [Brit bʊk, Am bʊk] VB trans

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IV.book [Brit bʊk, Am bʊk] VB intr

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I can read her like a book , she is (like) an open book to me
elle ne peut rien me cacher
his past is an open book
il n'a rien à cacher sur son passé
economics is a closed book to me
je ne connais rien à l'économie
she is a closed book to me
je n'arrive pas à la comprendre
to throw the book at sb (reprimand)
passer un savon à qn inf
to throw the book at sb (accuse)
n'omettre aucun chef d'accusation (quand on arrête qn)
to throw the book at sb (punish or sentence)
donner le maximum à qn
to be in sb's good books
être dans les petits papiers de qn inf
to be in sb's bad books
ne pas avoir la cote avec qn
in my book inf it's a crime
à mon avis or d'après moi c'est un crime
to bring sb to book
demander des comptes à qn, faire rendre des comptes à qn (for pour)
here's one for the book!
on s'en souviendra!
you shouldn't judge a book by its cover
≈ l'habit ne fait pas le moine

booking [Brit ˈbʊkɪŋ, Am ˈbʊkɪŋ] N

I.block [Brit blɒk, Am blɑk] N

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block booking in the PONS Dictionary

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II.block [blɒk, Am blɑ:k] VB trans

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In short, block booking allowed the majors to wrest the greatest amount of profits from the marketplace.
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It was also the day when the worst storms since whenever ravaged the country and had insurance companies block booking appointments with their counsellors.
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Such were the benefits of having a huge theater chain to fill, and of block booking to persuade other chains to go along.
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Block booking and early bird specials are also available.
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Without control over block booking, studios feared that they could no longer force theaters to buy up to 400 movies each year.
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Cinema's biggest names are coming and, as they do every year, they're block booking all the rooms.
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Unfortunately, there seems to be no easy way to reduce the cost of getting a licence, although some schools will offer discounts for block booking a number of lessons.
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But he also year in, year out made major musical and theatrical productions available to working-class audiences through a system of subsidized block bookings.
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Block booking and blind bidding were at the heart of the practices charged as illegally monopolistic.
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The vast majority of these events are planned well in advance, so the question needs to be asked why a special reduced block booking rate wasn't negotiated.
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