ticket

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
ticket/ˈtɪkɪt/

▶noun

• 1 a piece of paper or card giving the holder a right to admission to a place or event or to travel on public transport.

• 2 a certificate or warrant, especially an official notice of a traffic offence.

• 3 a label attached to a retail product, giving its price, size, etc.

• 4 chiefly N. Amer. a list of candidates put forward by a party in an election.

  ■ a set of principles or policies supported by a party in an election.

• 5 (the ticket) informal the desirable thing: a holiday would be just the ticket.

• 6 Scottish & US informal a person of a specified kind.

▶verb (tickets, ticketing, ticketed)

• 1 issue or mark with a ticket.

• 2 (be ticketed) N. Amer. be destined or heading for a specified state or position.

– derivatives
ticketed adjective,
ticketless adjective.

– origin C16: shortening of obs. Fr. étiquet, from OFr. estiquet(te), from estiquier ‘to fix’; cf. etiquette.