Ticket /(?)/
Tick·et
Ticket
n.
- A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
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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.
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A tradesman's bill or account. [Obs.]
Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets On ticket for his mistress.
- 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.
- A label to show the character or price of goods.
- A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
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A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot. (Politics) [U. S.]
The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes.
Phrases & Compounds
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- Ticket porter
- a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified.
Ticket
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Ticketed; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.]