ticket
Forms
- Plural
- tickets
- present (v1)
- ticket
- past (v2)
- ticketed
- past participle (v3)
- ticketed
- present participle
- ticketing
- 3rd person singular
- tickets
Definitions
1.A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
- You must show your ticket to the conductor.
- I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.
- I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come?
2.A citation for a traffic violation.
- I told them to send me another ticket.
- This is not my ticket.
- Can I cancel this ticket?
3.A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled.
- I told them to send me another ticket.
- This is not my ticket.
- Can I cancel this ticket?
4.A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.(informal)
- Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket.
- Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.
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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1555
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle 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”).