ticket
verb/ˈtɪkɪt/
/ˈtɪkɪt/
[usually passive]Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they ticket | /ˈtɪkɪt/ /ˈtɪkɪt/ |
| he / she / it tickets | /ˈtɪkɪts/ /ˈtɪkɪts/ |
| past simple ticketed | /ˈtɪkɪtɪd/ /ˈtɪkɪtɪd/ |
| past participle ticketed | /ˈtɪkɪtɪd/ /ˈtɪkɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form ticketing | /ˈtɪkɪtɪŋ/ /ˈtɪkɪtɪŋ/ |
- (specialist) to produce and sell tickets for an event, a trip, etc.; to give somebody a ticket
- be ticketed Passengers can now be ticketed electronically.
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- (especially North American English) to give somebody an official notice that orders them to pay a fine because they have done something illegal while driving or parking a car
- be ticketed Park illegally, and you're likely to be ticketed.
Word Originearly 16th cent. (in the general senses ‘short written note’ and ‘a licence or permit’): shortening of obsolete French étiquet, from Old French estiquet(te), from estiquier ‘to fix’, from Middle Dutch steken. Compare with etiquette.
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