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English
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Noun
[edit]ticket office (plural ticket offices)
- An office or booth where tickets may be purchased to allow admittance or for travel.
- Synonym: booking office
- 2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Wakefield Kirkgate”, in RAIL, number 948, page 29:
- On the opposite side of the concourse is the triple-counter ticket office and three self-service machines which are adjacent to a large customer service counter and the gateline.
- 2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 56:
- Traditionally, 'ticket office' seems to have been the preferred term in America, with Britain using the term 'booking office' (as an 1881 edition of The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine explains). Today, the two are often used interchangeably (as the recent 'Save our ticket offices' campaign shows), with the term 'ticketing' perhaps capturing more of the point-of-sale transaction and issuing of tickets within stations.
Related terms
[edit]- box office (for cinema and theatre)
Translations
[edit]an office where tickets may be purchased
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Further reading
[edit]- “ticket office”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “ticket office”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “ticket office”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.