parking ticket
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- noun
- /ˈpɑrkɪŋ ˈtɪkɪt/
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multa de estacionamiento
- I received a parking ticket for leaving my car in a no-parking zone.
- several parking tickets
- accumulate parking tickets
All of a sudden I had parking tickets unpaid.
- All of a sudden I had parking tickets unpaid.
- I think most people know if you don't pay your parking tickets, you're in the shit, don't they?
- So you have certain counties where, you know, it's, it could be a parking ticket, it could be a traffic violation.
- So yes, I have a parking ticket.
- I mean, it's, it's like you or me getting like a parking ticket.
- And yeah, he was law abiding, never even had a parking ticket.
Examples
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Once my wife had informed me that a parking ticket in Tokyo could cost $1,400, I felt a lot better.
Fiction book (1995) -
I just came back to get my parking ticket.
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I hate parking tickets so much.
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Had two parking tickets in the last year.
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I was just here to pay a parking ticket.
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It's time to pay my parking tickets!
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Look, if this is about those parking tickets, I can explain everything, okay?
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Now what are we going to do about these parking tickets?
Fiction book (1990) -
Sir, you have 25 unpaid parking tickets and it's your car.
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When I got to the car, I found a Swiss policeman writing out a parking ticket.
Academic text (1996)
Antonyms
How Serious
- Formal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is fully compositional: 'parking' specifies the domain and 'ticket' names the official notice, so a learner who knows both words can infer it is a ticket issued for a parking-related violation. This noun+noun pattern is common cross-linguistically and follows regular English modification rules, making the meaning predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Parking ticket comes from the simple image of leaving a car in the wrong place and finding a paper ticket on the windshield. That small paper showed you had broken the parking rules and told you to 'pay a fine', so the phrase now means an official notice to 'pay a fine' for illegal parking.