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Borrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

ticket (plural tickets)

A ticket.

  1. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
    1. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, sporting event, etc.
      I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come?
    2. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation.
      train ticket bus ticket plane ticket
      You must show your ticket to the conductor.
    3. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
      Synonym: license / licence
    4. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
      lottery ticket raffle ticket
      If I'd used my usual numbers, it would've been a winning ticket! Unlucky!
    5. A certificate of qualification as a ship's master, pilot, or other crew member.
      • 1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 207:
        The variety of the demands of the railways for staff is almost endless. They require men with master's tickets as dock masters and to command their steamships.
    6. (figurative) A solution to a problem; something that is needed in order to do something.
      That's the ticket.
      I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.
  2. A citation for a traffic violation.
  3. (usually technical support) A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled.
    • 2022 September 19, HarryBlank, “Beyond Repair”, in SCP Foundation‎[1], archived from the original on 15 September 2024:
      "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?"
      "My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest.
      "Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."
  4. (politics, 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.
    • 2019 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”, in New York Magazine‎[2]:
      Candidates like Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders are no longer too precious to run on the Democratic ticket, though the proposals they suggest are so ambitious — like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and free public college — that they don’t feel like compromises at all.
    • 2020 November 7, Chelsea Janes, “Kamala Harris, daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, elected nation’s first female vice president”, in Washington Post‎[3]:
      Harris’s victory comes 55 years after the Voting Rights Act abolished laws that disenfranchised Black Americans, 36 years after the first woman ran on a presidential ticket and four years after Democrats were devastated by the defeat of Hillary Clinton
  5. (dated) A small note or notice.
    • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:
      Under each coin was a circular ticket with written particulars of the specimen accompanying it.
  6. (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
  7. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
  8. (dated) A visiting card.
    • 1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith, page 124:
      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.
    • 1899, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading:
      "Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it."
  9. (law enforcement slang) A warrant.
    • 1999, Doug Most, Always in Our Hearts, page 148:
      […] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.

Descendants

admission to entertainment

pass for transportation

traffic citation

permit to operate machine

service request

informal: list of candidates

something that is needed in order to do something — see solution

Translations to be checked

ticket (third-person singular simple present tickets, present participle ticketing, simple past and past participle ticketed)

  1. To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
  2. To mark with a ticket.
    to ticket goods in a retail store

to issue someone a ticket

Borrowed from English ticket.

ticket n or m (plural tickets, diminutive ticketje n)

  1. ticket or voucher

English ticket, itself a borrowing from Middle French estiquet (thus a reborrowing). Doublet of étiquette

ticket m (plural tickets)

  1. ticket (admission, pass)
  2. receipt
  3. (North America) ticket (traffic citation)

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket. Doublet of etichetta.

ticket m (invariable)

  1. prescription charge
  2. ticket stub (especially at a horserace)

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket.

ticket m (plural tickets)

  1. (Brazil) alternative form of tíquete

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket.

ticket m (plural tickets)

  1. ticket
    • 2016 February 11, “Inauguración de la L9: el metro de Barcelona llega al aeropuerto”, in El Periódico‎[4]:
      Si ha perdido el billete, ha viajado con títulos no válidos (como la T-10 o el billete sencillo) o simplemente se ha colado, el pasajero encontrará máquinas expendedoras dentro de las barreras para poder adquirir el tíquet correspondiente (el de 4,5 euros) y poder salir a la terminal.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. receipt
  3. (Chile) checkmark
    Synonyms: (Mexico) palomita, (Spain) tic, tick, (Puerto Rico) cotejo

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

ticket

  1. definite singular of tick