Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or practice of affixing tickets to anything, or of giving tickets for it: as, the ticketing of goods or of passengers.
- noun The selling of ore by ticket. See
ticket , n., 6.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
issuing orselling oftickets - noun UK, mining, dated A
periodic sale ofore in themining districts , in whichbuyers wrote theirbids upontickets .
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Examples
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Smoking lounges located in ticketing areas of Terminals 2 and 3, on Concourse A (near Gate A-2) and in the Concourse B food court.
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It is likely that the All England Club, which made a £31m surplus in 2010, would approach any development of Court One with a similar external cash-raising exercise, which guarantees long-term ticketing allocations to subscribers.
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It is likely that the All England Club, which made a £31m surplus in 2010, would approach any development of Court One with a similar external cash-raising exercise, which guarantees long-term ticketing allocations to subscribers.
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And I'm leaving for work at 8: 25, just like I do every morning, because I know you begin ticketing at 8: 30.
July 22nd, 2005 2005
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Well, I think it’s not a hard case to make that enforcing a tax through law enforcement ticketing is pretty inefficient and unfair (my radar detector managed to get me a 100% deduction in this year’s “speed tax”).
Matthew Yglesias » LA Contemplates Further Smoking Restrictions 2009
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Bhairavi Desai, who runs the Taxi Workers Alliance, a taxi driver advocacy group, called ticketing of unlicensed drivers with the technology "problematic."
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We know that this area is being called a ticketing bomb by Mohammed ElBaradei, the head of the IAEA, when it comes to nuclear development.
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The ticketing is a nightmare in Madrid Puerta de Atocha because there's always a lot of people there.
unknown title 2009
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During that meeting, Fourth Ward Councilman Jerry Wade, who said he was originally "not very excited" about the idea of ticketing, said he supported Thumper's plans.
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City Councilman D. Michael Collins calls the ticketing "Mickey Mouse nonsense."
News for WNCT 2009
GHibbs commented on the word ticketing
Is it not also a present participle of the verb 'to ticket'? If the police were "ticketing speeders on Lauderdale" Road (see @hawkstv opposite), that sounds to me more like a verbal use than a noun.
October 31, 2011
bilby commented on the word ticketing
The tweets are not 'fixed' here but roll past and are updated. You should quote a tweet to which you refer as there is no guarantee it will still be displayed when any other reader arrives at your comment.
All English verbs have a gerund or continuous participle ending in -ing, it's highly unremarkable.
November 1, 2011