ticket

noun

1. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.

   “I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come?”

2. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.

   “train ticket   bus ticket   plane ticket”

   “You must show your ticket to the conductor.”

3. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
4. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.

   “lottery ticket   raffle ticket”

   “If I'd used my usual numbers, it would've been a winning ticket! Unlucky!”

5. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.

   “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.”

6. (figuratively)A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.

   “That's the ticket.”

   “I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.”

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

7. A citation for a traffic violation.
8. A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled.

   “"Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?" "My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest. "Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."”

9. (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.”

   “Candidates like Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders are no longer too precious to run on the Democratic ticket, though the proposals they suggest are so ambitious — like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and free public college — that they don’t feel like compromises at all.”

   “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”

10. (dated)A small note or notice.

    “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.”

    “Under each coin was a circular ticket with written particulars of the specimen accompanying it.”

11. (dated)A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).

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

12. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
13. (dated)A visiting card.

    “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.”

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

14. (slang)A warrant.

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

verb

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”