ticket - What does it mean?

Noun

(en-noun)

A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.

A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation

A citation for a traffic violation.

A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.

A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally Internet Service Provider related).

(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 .

A solution to a problem; something that is needed.

That's the ticket .

I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.

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|year=1884 |author=Mark Twain |title=Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |chapter=34 |url= |isbn=0-553-21079-3 |page= |passage="Here's the ticket . This hole's big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board."}}

(dated) A little note or notice.

* Fuller

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.

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

* J. Cotgrave

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

A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.

A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.