Noun

Singular ticket

Plural tickets

ticket (plural tickets)

1. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
2. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a plane, or other means of transportation
3. A citation for a traffic violation.
4. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
5. A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally Internet Service Provider related).
6. (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.

7. A solution to a problem; something that is needed.

   That's the ticket.

   I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.

   • 1884, Mark Twain, Chapter 34, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ISBN 0-553-21079-3:

     "Here's the ticket. This hole's big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board."

Derived terms

• have tickets on oneself
• golden ticket

• that's the ticket

• write one's own ticket

Ticket may refer to:

• Ticket (admission), a card or slip of paper used to gain admission to a location or event
• Ticket (election), a single election choice which fills more than one political office or seat
• Ticket (receipt), a card or slip of paper that designates one's position in a queue or ownership of an item to be picked up
• Traffic ticket, a notice of commission of a legal infraction
• Ticket (IT support), a file documenting a reported problem and the steps taken to resolve it
• Ticket (IT security), a number generated by a network server as a means of authentication
• Ticket cases, a series of cases in contract law
• Airline ticket, a document created by an airline or a travel agent to confirm that an individual has purchased a seat on an airplane.
• Electronic ticket, an electronic form of Airline ticket.
• Train ticket, a document created by a railway operator or a travel agent to confirm that an individual has purchased a seat on a coach.
• Traffic ticket, a summons and citation issued by police officers to motorists and other road users they believe have failed to obey traffic laws
• KTCK, AM 1310 & FM 104.1, a radio station in Dallas, Texas, known as 'The Ticket'.

Tickets may refer to:

• Tickets is a 2005 film directed by Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach, and Ermanno Olmi.