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Ticket

noun

1.

A commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment).

2.

A label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.. Synonym: tag.

3.

A summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation).

4.

A list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices. Synonym: slate.

5.

The appropriate or desirable thing. Synonym: just the ticket.

verb

(past & past part. ticketed; pres. part. ticketing)

1.

Issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty. Synonym: fine. "Move your car or else you will be ticketed!"

2.

Provide with a ticket for passage or admission.

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"Ticket" Quotes from Famous Books

... anywhere, for battle-fields, but becoming gradually sensible in that city that the battle of Marston Moor was fought a few miles away, and my enemy Charles I. put to one of his worst defeats there, I bought a third-class ticket and ran out to the place one day for whatever ...

— Seven English Cities • W. D. Howells

... Ring felt confident that they could control any election by filling the ballot-boxes with fraudulent votes. In many cases money was taken from the city treasury, and used to purchase votes for the Ring or Tammany Hall ticket. It was also used to bribe inspectors of elections to certify any returns that the leaders of the Ring might decide upon; and it came to be a common saying in New York that the Tammany ticket could always command a majority in the city ...

— Lights and Shadows of New York Life - or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City • James D. McCabe

... he added, looking round deprecatingly, "they'll tell me down at the railway station the way we'll have to go; or maybe Father Taylor 'ud know. The say is miles an' miles away—I question if they'd give us a ticket for the say ...

— North, South and Over the Sea • M.E. Francis (Mrs. Francis Blundell)

... he urged in wheedling tones, "I ain't got no ticket. You know how it is, Bud. I blows my stake." He fished uncertainly in his pocket and produced the quart bottle, nearly empty, ...

— The Blazed Trail • Stewart Edward White

... the Capitol, while all this was occurring, a gaunt, gigantic, aged figure might have been seen, looking away into the city basking in the plain at his feet, with almost the bitterness of prophecy. He carried an old worn carpet-bag, and a railroad ticket appeared in his hat-band. It was Jabel Blake, shaking the dust of the capital city ...

— Tales of the Chesapeake • George Alfred Townsend

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