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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

... of men who were to be found upon the borders of every large estate, and who were known by the name of squatters. These were ticket-of-leave holders, or freedmen who erected a but on waste land near a great public road, or on the outskirts ...

— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... a medley of irrelevant things. He seemed to hold in his brain an actual picture of everything he had seen that morning. He remembered every feature of both his drivers, the toothless old woman from whom he had bought the red flowers in his coat, the agent from whom he had got his ticket, and all of his fellow-passengers on the ferry. His mind, unable to cope with vital matters near at hand, worked feverishly and deftly at sorting and grouping these images. They made for him a part of the ugliness of the ...

— Youth and the Bright Medusa • Willa Cather

... to be done," he urged. "To elect our ticket we must have all the respectable and responsible people of the valley. If we can ...

— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes

... our own ideas. Ideas are fluctuating, transitory, and 'come into the mind unbidden.' We must catch and make a note of these shifting crowds of impalpable entities. We therefore put marks upon the simple sensations or upon the 'clusters.' We ticket them as a tradesman tickets bundles of goods in his warehouse, and can refer to them for our own purposes or those of others. As the number of objects to be marked is enormous, as there are countless ideas and clusters and clusters of clusters of endless variety to be arranged in various ...

— The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) - James Mill • Leslie Stephen

... than she had been since her brother's death, for reasons that have already been hinted at. Besides, Mr. Edward Cossey was out of the way, and that to Ida was a very great thing, for his presence to her was what a policeman is to a ticket-of- leave man—a most unpleasant and suggestive sight. She fully realised the meaning and extent of the bargain into which she had entered to save her father and her house, and there lay upon her the deep shadow of evil that was to come. Every time she saw her ...

— Colonel Quaritch, V.C. - A Tale of Country Life • H. Rider Haggard

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