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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

... cunningly devised arrangements by which an effective minority control is maintained over the nomination of candidates and the framing of party platforms. The test of fitness for office is not fidelity to the rank and file of the people who vote the party ticket, but subserviency to those interests which dominate the party machine. The choice of candidates is largely made in the secret councils of the ruling minority and the party conventions under color of ...

— The Spirit of American Government - A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And - Relation To Democracy • J. Allen Smith

... questions, darting her eyes angrily at all her neighbours as though they were gathered there together to murder her at the earliest opportunity. She would be desperately confused when asked to pay for her ticket, would be unable to find her purse, and then when she discovered it would scatter its contents upon the ground. In such an agony would she be at the threatened passing of her destination that she would spring up at every pause of the omnibus, ...

— The Captives • Hugh Walpole

... state when he took his ticket for La Rochelle by the 8:40 night express. And he was walking up and down the waiting-room at the station, when he stopped suddenly in front of a young lady who was kissing an old one. She had her veil up, and Morin ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume II (of 8) • Guy de Maupassant

... individual "and his friends" [630:3] should be restored to ecclesiastical fellowship. Cyprian of Carthage at length determined to set his face against this system of testimonials. He alleged that the ticket of a martyr was no sufficient proof of the penitence of the party who tendered it, and that each application for readmission to membership should be decided on its own merits, by the proper Church authorities. The bishop was already obnoxious to some of the presbyters and people ...

— The Ancient Church - Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution • W.D. [William Dool] Killen

... eked out the business of checking the trunks into an affair of some length, but the baggage-master did his duty with pitiless celerity; and so Basil, in the mere excess of his disoccupation, bought an accident-insurance ticket. This employed him half a minute, and then he gave up the unequal contest, and went and took his place beside Isabel, who sat prettily wrapped in her shawl, ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

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