ticket

noun

• 1a piece of paper or card that gives the holder a certain right, especially to enter a place, travel by public transport, or participate in an event:admission is by ticket only
• a receipt for goods that have been received.
• a piece of paper or card bought as a way of entering a lottery or raffle:the two winning tickets, bought within days of each other, went unclaimed
• (in information technology) a request logged on a work tracking system detailing an issue that needs to be addressed or task that must be performed:if you have opened a ticket and it’s not yet been resolved, then there is no need for you to open a new one they closed the ticket without doing anything
• (ticket to/out of) a method of getting into or out of (a specified state or situation):drugs are seen as the only ticket out of poverty companies that appeared to have a one-way ticket to profitability

• 2a certificate or warrant, in particular:
• an official notice of a traffic offence: the officer issued Rhodes a speeding ticket
• a certificate of qualification as a ship’s master, pilot, or other crew member.
• British a certificate of discharge from the army.

• 3a label attached to a retail product, giving its price, size, and other details.

• 4 [in singular] chiefly North American a list of candidates put forward by a party in an election:his presence on the Republican ticket
• a set of principles or policies supported by a party in an election:he stood for office on a strong right-wing, no-nonsense ticket

• 5 (the ticket) informal the desirable or correct thing:a wet spring would be just the ticket for the garden

• 6 [with adjective] Scottish & US informal a person of a specified kind:I think you’re all a bunch of sick tickets

verb (tickets, ticketing, ticketed)

• 1issue (someone) with an official notice of a traffic offence:park illegally and you are likely to be ticketed

• 2 (be ticketed) (of a passenger) be issued with a travel ticket:passengers can now get electronically ticketed (as adjective ticketed)ticketed passengers
• North American be destined for a specified state or position:they were sure that Downing was ticketed for greatness

• 3 (be ticketed) (of a retail product) be marked with a label giving its price, size, and other details: the sports jacket had been ticketed at two hundred dollars (as adjective ticketed)the ticketed price