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 technical support related).
• (informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate’s manifesto.
• A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
• (dated) A little note or notice.
• (dated) A tradesman’s bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
• 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.
• (dated) A visiting card.

Exemple

• Joe has joined the party’s ticket for the county elections.
• Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket.
• 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.”
• 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.
• Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.
• 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.”

Verb

• To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
• To mark with a ticket.

Exemple

• to ticket goods in a retail store

Noun

• A permit to enter and leave a country, normally issued by the authorities of the country to be visited.

Related terms

• student visa
• tourist visa
• transit visa
• visaless
• working-holiday visa

Verb

• (transitive, dated) To endorse (a passport, etc.).