ticket
/ˈtɪk.ɪt/ noun A1- A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, sporting event, etc. · I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come?
- A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation. · train ticket bus ticket plane ticket· You must show your ticket to the conductor.
- A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
- A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc. · lottery ticket raffle ticket· If I'd used my usual numbers, it would've been a winning ticket! Unlucky!
- A certificate of qualification as a ship's master, pilot, or other crew member.
- A solution to a problem; something that is needed in order to do something. · That's the ticket.· I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.
- A citation for a traffic violation.
- A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled.
Plural tickets
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Lydia talked incessantly of lottery tickets, of the fish she had lost and the fish she had won; and Mr.
“No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm of your left glove.
Then, having taken another look round, I returned to my carriage, where I found that the porter, in spite of the ticket, had given me my decrepit Italian friend as a traveling companion.
Philips protested that they would have a nice comfortable noisy game of lottery tickets, and a little bit of hot supper afterwards.
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