block booking
noun[C]
COMMERCEukusalargenumberofticketsfor aparticularevent,hotel,flight, etc. that aresoldto onepersonororganization:
Discounts areofferedforblockbookings.
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In short,blockbookingallowed the majors to wrest the greatest amount of profits from the marketplace.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Blockbookingand blind bidding were at the heart of the practices charged as illegally monopolistic.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The report disputed the charges, and denied that it practicedblockbooking.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Without control overblockbooking, studios feared that they could no longer force theaters to buy up to 400 movies each year.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Such were the benefits of having a huge theater chain to fill, and ofblockbookingto persuade other chains to go along.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.What is the point of blind booking andblockbooking?
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Why blind booking,blockbooking, advance booking is the ordinary routine of everyday trade.
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The questions refer to blind andblockbooking.
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That decision will be made by means of ablockbookingby managers who know everything about cost, but nothing about quality and outcome.
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There has been far too muchblockbookingand of not allowing the exhibitor as much freedom of choice as one would wish.
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