Ticket
Ticket , noun
[French étiquette a label, ticket, from Old French estiquette, or Old French etiquet, estiquet; both of Teutonic origin, and akin to English stick. See Stick, n. & v., and compare Etiquette, Tick credit.]
A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as a notice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.
(a)
A little note or notice. [Obsolete or Local]
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.
(b)
A tradesman's bill or account. [Obsolete]
Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets
On ticket for his mistress.
Hence the phrase on ticket, on account; whence, by abbreviation, came the phrase on tick. See 1st Tick.
(c)
A certificate or token of right of admission to a place of assembly, or of passage in a public conveyance; as, a theater ticket; a railroad or steamboat ticket.
(d)
A label to show the character or price of goods.
(e)
A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, or the like.
(f)
(Politics) A printed list of candidates to be voted for at an election; a set of nominations by one party for election; a ballot. [United States]
The old ticket forever! We have it by thirty-four votes.
Collocations (6)
Scratched ticket , a ticket from which the names of one or more of the candidates are scratched out.
Split ticket , a ticket representing different divisions of a party, or containing candidates selected from two or more parties.
Straight ticket , a ticket containing the regular nominations of a party, without change.
Ticket day (Commerce) , the day before the settling or pay day on the stock exchange, when the names of the actual purchasers are rendered in by one stockbroker to another. [English] — Simmonds
Ticket of leave , a license or permit given to a convict, or prisoner of the crown, to go at large, and to labor for himself before the expiration of his sentence, subject to certain specific conditions. [English] — Simmonds
Ticket porter , a licensed porter wearing a badge by which he may be identified. [English]
Ticket , transitive verb
1.
To distinguish by a ticket; to put a ticket on; as, to ticket goods.
2.
To furnish with a tickets; to book; as, to ticket passengers to California. [United States]