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admission

admission

127 2.7
A charge for entering a place like a museum or concert
  • noun
  • /ədˈmɪʃən/
translation icon : entrada
  • You need to purchase an admission ticket to enter the amusement park for the day.
  • price of admission
  • free admission

We're going to crush it this Christmas Eve hard, and we're going to charge admission.

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Examples

  • The admission fee is 120,000 rupees, and, thereafter, it will be 15,000 rupees each month.

  • The price of admission to the museum is $10 for adults and $5 for children.

  • Now that alone is worth the price of admission one more time.

  • Well, that was worth the price of admission.

  • This is gonna be worth the price of admission.

  • The price of admission, just 20 bucks and a little bit of dignity.

  • Two years of Latin were required for admission to the University of Michigan.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • As an incentive, participants received a voucher for free admission to a movie.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Complimentary admission to ETA live events.

  • For a ticket worth $30, the admission to the concert includes a meet-and-greet with the band.

Synonyms

price of admission
vsadmission
9 2.5

Money you pay to enter a place or event

is the standard label for that required payment
entrance fee
vsadmission
8 1.6

An amount of money you pay to enter a place or event

is the generic word for that entry payment
admission fee
vsadmission
3 2.4

Money you pay to enter a place or event

is the general term for that required payment
admission price
vsadmission
1 1.6

Money you must pay to enter a place or event

uses the broader term for this required payment
admission charge
vsadmission
1 2.5

A fee you pay to enter a place or event

is the common label for this obligatory payment
entrance money
vsadmission
  • UK
3.3

Money you pay to get into an event or place

is the usual term for the required entry payment
entrada
vsadmission
  • US
7.3

A ticket that gives you permission to enter an event

denotes the money required rather than the entry permit

Compounds

Money you pay to enter a place or event

Money you pay to enter a place or event

Money you must pay to enter a place or event

A fee you pay to enter a place or event

5.0

A public holiday that marks the date a state joined the United States

8.8

A statement by a party or their lawyer in court that judges accept as true and use as proof

How Expensive

prohibitive
19 7.4
admission
127 2.7
small fee
9 1.0
free pass
11 3.4

Surface Forms

admission singular
admissions plural

Morphology

admission = admit (semi-transparent) = admit + sion

Formed from 'admit' + '-sion', but the specific sense 'fee' is an institutional extension rather than a direct grammatical consequence, so the relation is not fully predictable.

Etymology

Admission comes from Latin parts ad- ('to') and mittere ('send' or 'let in'), the same root as the English verb admit. It first meant the act of letting someone in, and so admission also became the 'fee' you pay to be let into a place.