Booked
Definition
Having been secured or retained through the payment of a deposit or advance; a good or service contractually frozen based on a previously paid security sum.
Bilingual Equivalents
- Booked
- Secured
Grammatical & Source Details
| Inflection Type | Variable adjective with standard masculine, feminine, and plural structural variations. |
| Formation | Past participle of the verb 'a aconta', functionally stabilized as an independent descriptive adjective. |
| Spelling / Pronunciation | [a.kon.ˈtat] |
| Source | Lexicon of Grammatical Typologies, Adjectival Behaviors, and Legal Syntaxes |
Contextual Usage Examples
RO: Toate apartamentele din acest bloc nou figurează deja ca fiind acontate de către clienți din stadiul de proiect.
EN: All the apartments in this new building already appear as being secured with a deposit by clients from the project stage.
RO: Artistul internațional este deja acontat pentru noaptea de Revelion, deci trebuie să căutăm o altă trupă.
EN: The international artist is already booked for New Year's Eve, so we must look for another band.
RO: Echipamentul industrial acontat luna trecută urmează să fie livrat în depozitul nostru în cursul săptămânii viitoare.
EN: The industrial equipment secured with an advance last month is scheduled to be delivered to our warehouse next week.
Idioms & Phrases
Bun acontat / Secured asset / booked item
RO: Produs care nu mai poate fi înstrăinat altui cumpărător deoarece a fost parțial achitat de un client inițial.
EN: A product that can no longer be sold to another buyer because it was partially paid for by an initial client.
Serviciu deja acontat / Already booked service / pre-engaged service
RO: Prestație profesională indisponibilă publicului deoarece a fost blocată ferm printr-un avans financiar.
EN: Professional performance unavailable to the public because it has been firmly frozen via a financial advance.
Teren acontat legal / Legally secured land
RO: Suprafață de pământ protejată printr-un antecontract de vânzare-cumpărare însoțit de o recipisă de plată.
EN: A surface of land protected by a pre-contract of sale-purchase accompanied by a payment receipt.
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