Meaning & use
travel arrangement
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Meanings
nouncountable
A plan or booking for a trip, such as tickets, hotels, or transport.
Grammar: Usually used in the plural: 'make travel arrangements'. As a singular, it refers to one specific plan.
Patterns
- make travel arrangements
- travel arrangements for something
- confirm travel arrangements
I need to make travel arrangements for my business trip to Chicago.
The company handles all travel arrangements for its employees.
Have you confirmed your travel arrangements yet?
noununcountable
The act of organizing details for a journey, often done by a travel agent or online service.
Grammar: When talking about the activity in general, it is uncountable: 'Travel arrangement can be stressful.' More commonly, the plural form is used for the concrete plans.
Patterns
- travel arrangement service
- online travel arrangement
She works in travel arrangement for a large corporation.
Online travel arrangement has made booking flights much easier.
Word forms
| plural | travel arrangements |
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Common combinations
- make travel arrangements
- I'll make the travel arrangements if you book the hotel.
- travel arrangements for a trip
- She took care of all the travel arrangements for our trip to Japan.
- finalize travel arrangements
- We need to finalize travel arrangements by Friday.
- change travel arrangements
- Due to the storm, we had to change our travel arrangements at the last minute.
Synonyms and how they differ
- travel plans
- Travel plans is more general and can include ideas and intentions, while travel arrangements usually refer to confirmed bookings.
- itinerary
- An itinerary is a detailed schedule of a journey, while travel arrangements are the bookings and preparations themselves.
Word family
- travel agent noun
- A person whose job is to make travel arrangements for others.
- travel agency noun
- A business that makes travel arrangements for customers.
Commonly confused: travel arrangement or traveling arrangement?
travel arrangement vs traveling arrangement
'Traveling arrangement' is not a standard phrase; use 'travel arrangement' or 'travel arrangements'.
Practice
Which sentence uses 'travel arrangement' correctly?
Choose one answer.
The plural 'travel arrangements' is the standard form when talking about multiple bookings. Option 1 is wrong because it uses the singular with 'all'. Option 3 uses 'to' instead of 'for'. Option 4 incorrectly pluralizes 'travel'.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “travel arrangement”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.