English translation of "überbuchen/Überbuchung" - "over-accounting"

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213 months ago

Bettina In der Wische (a guest user) asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Business / Marketing / Financial
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	überbuchen/Überbuchung
Context:	Warenwirtschaft/Buchhaltung

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213 months ago

wrote:

Over booking

213 months ago

Mario Ebert - Übersetzungen wrote:

over-accounting

My comment:

or even: over-reporting
(a conceivable alternative if the area in question indeed is "Warenwirtschaft/Buchhaltung", and not tourims etc.)

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213 months ago

Rupert Kindermann wrote:

overbook oder over-book

My comment:

see LEO, google the term - if you take on more orders than you actually can fill because you estimate that some orders will fall off - very common with airlines, even hotels etc.

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213 months ago

Nicola Devlin wrote:

I agree!

213 months ago

Nicola Devlin wrote:

I also agree.

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