ticket

From Middle English ticket, from Old French etiquet m, *estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɪkɪt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɪkət/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

ticket (plural tickets)

A ticket.

1. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
2. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
3. A citation for a traffic violation.
4. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
5. A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally technical support related).
6. (informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
   • 2020 November 7, Chelsea Janes, “Kamala Harris, daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, elected nation’s first female vice president”, in Washington Post‎:

     Harris’s victory comes 55 years after the Voting Rights Act abolished laws that disenfranchised Black Americans, 36 years after the first woman ran on a presidential ticket and four years after Democrats were devastated by the defeat of Hillary Clinton

   Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.

   Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket.

7. A solution to a problem; something that is needed.

   That's the ticket.

   I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.

   • 1884, Mark Twain, chapter 34, in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, →ISBN:

     "Here's the ticket. This hole's big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board."

8. (dated) A little note or notice.
   • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, OCLC 418859860:

     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.

9. (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
   • 1633, Shackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion

     Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.

10. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
11. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
12. (dated) A visiting card.
    • 1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith (page 124)

      I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.

    • 1899, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading

      "Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it."

13. (law enforcement slang) A warrant.
    • 1999, Doug Most, Always in Our Hearts (page 148)

      […] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.

14. A certificate of qualification as a ship's master, pilot, or other crew member.
    • 1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 207:

      The variety of the demands of the railways for staff is almost endless. They require men with master's tickets as dock masters and to command their steamships.

• ticket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Ticket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

ticket (third-person singular simple present tickets, present participle ticketing, simple past and past participle ticketed)

1. To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
2. To mark with a ticket.

   to ticket goods in a retail store

• ticket off

• ktetic

Borrowed from English ticket.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪ.kət/

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• Hyphenation: tic‧ket

ticket n or m (plural tickets, diminutive ticketje n)

1. ticket or voucher

• vliegticket

• → Indonesian: tiket

Borrowed from English ticket.

• IPA^(key): /ti.kɛ/

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ticket m (plural tickets)

1. ticket (admission, pass)
2. receipt
3. (Quebec) ticket (traffic citation)

• “ticket”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket. Doublet of etichetta.

• IPA^(key): /ˈti.ket/
• Rhymes: -iket
• Hyphenation: tìc‧ket

ticket m (invariable)

1. prescription charge
2. ticket stub (especially at a horserace)

• ticket in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ket͡ʃ/

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. (Brazil) Alternative form of tíquete

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiket/ [ˈt̪i.ket̪]
• Rhymes: -iket
• Syllabification: tic‧ket

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. receipt

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

ticket

1. definite singular of tick.