ticket
• noun 1 a piece of paper or card giving the holder a right to admission to a place or event or to travel on public transport. 2 an official notice of a traffic offence. 3 a label attached to a retail product, giving its price, size, etc. 4 chiefly N. Amer. a set of principles supported by a party in an election. 5 (the ticket) informal the desirable thing. • verb (ticketed, ticketing) issue with a ticket. — ORIGIN Old French estiquet, from Dutch steken ‘to fix’.
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