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noun

Ticket n. A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something. Specifically:

(a)

A little note or notice. (Obs. or Local) "He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors."

(b)

A tradesman's bill or account. (Obs.) Note: Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick. "Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets On ticket for his mistress."

(c)

A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.

(d)

A label to show the character or price of goods.

(e)

A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.

(f)

(Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot. (U. S.) "The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes."

Scratched ticket, a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out.

Split ticket, a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two or more parties.

Straight ticket, a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party, without change.

Ticket day (Com.), the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another. (Eng.)

Ticket of leave, a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions. (Eng.)

Ticket porter, a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified. (Eng.)

verb

Ticket v. t. (past & past part. ticketed; pres. part. ticketing)

To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.

To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. (U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Ticket'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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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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