# ticket
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English ticket, 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.

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈtɪkɪt/
* Audio (UK); “a ticket”:(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* (weak vowel merger) IPA: /ˈtɪkət/
* Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

### Noun

ticket (plural tickets)
* A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
** 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?
** 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.
** A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
    Synonym: license / licence
** 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!
** 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.
** (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.
*** 1884, Mark Twain, chapter 34, in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, →ISBN:"Here's the ticket. This hole's big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board."
* A citation for a traffic violation.
* (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, 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."
* (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: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: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
* (dated) A little 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.
* (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
** 1633, Shackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion: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.
* (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."
* (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.

#### Derived terms

* airline ticket
* air ticket
* all-ticket
* back to back ticket
* balance the ticket
* beer ticket
* big-ticket
* big ticket
* big-ticket item
* blue ticket
* boiler ticket
* bread ticket
* buy a ticket to
* commutation ticket
* couldn't organise a two-ticket raffle
* cross-border ticket
* down-ticket
* E ticket
* e-ticket
* exit ticket
* flight ticket
* golden ticket
* hard-ticket
* have tickets on oneself
* high-ticket
* hot ticket
* incident ticket system
* just the ticket
* kangaroo ticket
* like a pakapoo ticket
* lottery ticket
* meal ticket
* meat ticket
* one-way ticket
* one-way ticket to Palookaville
* paper ticket
* parking ticket
* pink ticket
* plane ticket
* platform ticket
* punch someone's ticket
* return ticket
* round-trip ticket
* season ticket
* seat reservation ticket
* sell wolf tickets
* shit ticket
* single ticket
* small-ticket
* smart ticket
* speeding ticket
* split ticket
* straight ticket
* support ticket
* support ticket system
* that's the ticket
* that's the ticket for soup
* the full ticket
* through-ticket
* ticket agent
* ticket barrier
* ticket booth
* ticket collector
* ticket-collector
* ticket day
* ticket designator
* ticket gate
* ticket hall
* ticket-holder
* ticket inspection
* ticket inspector
* ticket-inspector
* ticket machine
* ticketmate
* ticket office
* ticket of leave
* ticket-of-leave
* ticket of occupation
* ticket point mileage
* ticket-porter
* ticket porter
* ticket printer
* ticket stamping machine
* ticket-stamping machine
* ticket time limit
* ticket to ride
* ticket tout
* ticket vending machine
* ticket window
* traffic ticket
* trouble ticket
* trouble ticket system
* Tyburn ticket
* visiting ticket
* walking ticket
* wolf's ticket
* wolf ticket
* woof ticket
* write one's own ticket
* yellow ticket

#### Descendants

* → Assamese: টিকট (tikot)
* → Bengali: টিকিট (ṭikiṭ), টিকট (ṭikoṭ), টিকেট (ṭikeṭ) — anglicized pronunciation
* → Catalan: tiquet
* → Dhivehi: ޓިކެޓް (ṭikeṭ)
* → Dutch: ticket
** → Indonesian: tiket
* → French: ticket
* → German: Ticket
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: टिकट (ṭikaṭ)
    Urdu: ٹکٹ (ṭikaṭ)
* → Irish: ticéad
* → Italian: ticket
* → Japanese: チケット (chiketto)
* → Korean: 티켓 (tiket)
* → Malay: tiket
* → Maori: tīketi
* → Marathi: तिकीट (tikīṭ)
* → Nepali: टिकट (ṭikaṭ)
* → Odia: ଟିକଟ (ṭikaṭa)
* → Portuguese: tíquete, ticket (Brazil)
* → Scottish Gaelic: tiogaid
* → Serbo-Croatian: тикет (tiket)
* → Spanish: ticket, tique, tiquete
* → Tagalog: tiket
* → Tamil: டிக்கட்டு (ṭikkaṭṭu)
* → Tibetan: ཏི་ཀ་སི (ti ka si, “postage stamp”)
* → Tok Pisin: tiket

#### Translations

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#### See also

* ticket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Ticket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

### Verb

ticket (third-person singular simple present tickets, present participle ticketing, simple past and past participle ticketed)
* To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
* To mark with a ticket.
    to ticket goods in a retail store

#### Derived terms

* ticket off

#### Translations
### Anagrams

* ktetic

## Dutch
### Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtɪ.kət/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tic‧ket

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* vliegticket

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: tiket

## French
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Europe) IPA: /ti.kɛ/, /ti.ke/
* (Canada) IPA: /t͡si.kɛt/, /t͡si.kɛ/, /t͡si.ke/
* Audio (France):(file)

### Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)
* ticket (admission, pass)
* receipt
* (North America) ticket (traffic citation)

#### Derived terms

* avoir un ticket
* ticket de caisse
* ticket d’achat

### Further reading

* “ticket”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket. Doublet of etichetta.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈti.ket/
* Rhymes: -iket
* Hyphenation: tìc‧ket

### Noun

ticket m (invariable)
* prescription charge
* ticket stub (especially at a horserace)

### Further reading

* ticket in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket.

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈt͡ʃi.ket͡ʃ/

### Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)
* (Brazil) Alternative form of tíquete

## Spanish
### Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English ticket.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtiket/ [ˈt̪i.ket̪]
* Rhymes: -iket
* Syllabification: tic‧ket

### Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)
* receipt

#### Usage notes

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.

### Further reading

* “ticket”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
* ticket | Diccionario • DELE Ahora

## Swedish
### Noun

ticket
* definite singular of tick