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Ticket collector   /tˈɪkət kəlˈɛktər/   Listen
Ticket collector

noun
1.
Someone who is paid to admit only those who have purchased tickets.  Synonym: ticket taker.





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"Ticket collector" Quotes from Famous Books



... evening in Ipswich. It was October, drizzling and dark; the last cab moved out as he tried to enter it, for he had been detained by his ticket which he had put for extra readiness in his glove, and forgotten—as if the ticket collector couldn't have seen it there, the 'fat chough!' He walked up to his Aunt's house, and was admitted to a mansion where a dinner-party was going on. It was impossible to persuade the servant that this was his Aunt's, so he was obliged to retire ...
— Tatterdemalion • John Galsworthy
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... followed Bosinney more closely than ever—up the stairs, past the ticket collector into the street. In that progress, however, his feelings underwent a change; no longer merely curious and amused, he felt sorry for the poor fellow he was shadowing. 'The Buccaneer' was not drunk, but ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
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Words linked to "Ticket collector" :   ostiary, doorman, porter, hall porter, door guard, doorkeeper, gatekeeper


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