block booking (English, noun)
expansion: block booking (countable and uncountable, plural block bookings)
Senses:
glosses: The reservation of a large number of hotel rooms, tickets, or other items at one time; (countable) an instance of this.
tags: uncountable
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: The sale of multiple films by a film studio to a theater as a unit, without the latter knowing much about them, allowing the studio to package less popular films with more popular ones. The Supreme Court of the United States determined the practice to be in violation of antitrust law in 1948.
tags: US
historical
uncountable
Forms:
form: block bookings
tags: plural
form: block-booking
tags: alternative