ticket

Etymology

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 *stikkan, *stikjan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *st(e)ig-, *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɪkɪt/

• Audio (US)

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• Audio (UK, "a ticket")

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• Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

Noun

ticket (plural tickets or tix) (tix is informal)

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.

   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.
   • Fuller

     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).
   • J. Cotgrave

     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.

Verb

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

Etymology

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.kɛ/

• audio

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Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

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

Further reading

• “ticket” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

English

Noun

ticket m (invariable)

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

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ket͡ʃ/

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. ticket (slip entitling the holder to something)

Etymology

English

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. receipt

Noun

ticket

1. definite singular of tick