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  1. noun A paper slip or card indicating that its holder has paid for or is entitled to a specified service, right, or consideration: a theater ticket; an airline ticket.
  2. noun An e-ticket.
  3. noun A certifying document, especially a captain's or pilot's license.
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  • I think a Clinton on the ticket -- Hillary Clinton on the ticket could be a great way to unify the party. —  CNN Transcript Jun 4, 2008
  • ZAHN: And you have heard the tension of these lottery winners going in to the place where they bought it to verify in fact this ticket was authentic and it matched the winner numbers. —  CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2002
  • You know the one thing he adds to this ticket is the quality of populism. —  CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2004
  • She was, she declared, having too much fun. —  Knocked for a Loop
  • Opens it to check her ticket is accessible. —  Running Blind
 

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  1. Obsolete French etiquet, label, note, from Old French estiquet, post serving as a target in certain sports, notice, label, from estiquier, to stick, of Germanic origin; see steig- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English ticket, from Old French *estiquet, etiquet, masculine, estiquette, etiquette, feminine, a bill, note, label, ticket, especially a bill stuck up on a gate or wall as a public notice, French étiquette, feminine, a label, ticket, etiquette, from Middle High German G. stecken, stick: see stick. Cf. etiquette.
  2. from ticket, n.
 

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