ticket
noun
[ ˈtɪkɪt ]
• a piece of paper or card that gives the holder a certain right, especially to enter a place, travel by public transport, or participate in an event.
• "admission is by ticket only"
Similar:
pass,
warrant,
authorization,
licence,
permit,
token,
coupon,
voucher,
carnet,
season ticket,
rover,
complimentary ticket,
chit,
slip,
card,
stub,
counterfoil,
rain check,
comp,
ducat,
chitty,
laissez-passer,
firman,
• a certificate or warrant.
• a label attached to a retail product, giving its price, size, and other details.
• a list of candidates put forward by a party in an election.
• "his presence on the Republican ticket"
• the desirable or correct thing.
• "a wet spring would be just the ticket for the garden"
• a person of a specified kind.
• "I think you're all a bunch of sick tickets"
ticket
verb
• issue (someone) with an official notice of a traffic offence.
• "park illegally and you are likely to be ticketed"
• (of a passenger) be issued with a travel ticket.
• "passengers can now get electronically ticketed"
• (of a retail product) be marked with a label giving its price, size, and other details.
• "the sports jacket had been ticketed at two hundred dollars"
Origin:
early 16th century (in the general senses ‘short written note’ and ‘a licence or permit’): shortening of obsolete French étiquet, from Old French estiquet(te ), from estiquier ‘to fix’, from Middle Dutch steken . Compare with etiquette.
