Antonyms for ticket

Grammar : Noun

Spell : tik-it

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɪk ɪt

Definition of ticket

Origin : 1520s, "short note or document," from a shortened form of Middle French etiquet "label, note," from Old French estiquette "a little note" (late 14c.), especially one affixed to a gate or wall as a public notice, from estiquer "to affix, stick on, attach," from Frankish *stikkan, cognate with Old English stician "to pierce" (see stick (v.)).
Meaning "card or piece of paper that gives its holder a right or privilege" is first recorded 1670s, probably developing from the sense of "certificate, license, permit." The political sense of "list of candidates put forward by a faction" has been used in American English since 1711. Meaning "official notification of offense" is from 1930; parking ticket first attested 1947. Big ticket item is from 1970. Slang the ticket "just the thing, what is expected" is recorded from 1838, perhaps with notion of a winning lottery ticket.

noun authorization on paper

Example sentences :

It was five minutes to four when she purchased her ticket to New York.
Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower

What if he should get into a train without a ticket, or send a guard to procure one for him?
Extract from : « Life in London » by Edwin Hodder

Of course, he was going, but the perplexing thing was, what to do with that other ticket.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

He breakfasted at Mrs. McKee's, and was initiated into the mystery of the ticket punch.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

If you miss any meals, your ticket is good until it is punched.
Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart

I suppose it was to save me the expense of buying a ticket for it.
Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser

This was the last I had seen of my ticket, and almost the last I had thought of my pension.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

When I sell a ticket to Shoshone, I'm the ticket agent, and nothing else.
Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower

Hamish he saw first, as he was turning away from getting his ticket.
Extract from : « The Channings » by Mrs. Henry Wood

When they reached the station he found a seat for her and went to buy her ticket.
Extract from : « The Greater Inclination » by Edith Wharton

Synonyms for ticket

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