ticket office
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- noun
- /ˈtɪkɪt ˈɔfɪs/
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oficina de boletos
- Excuse me, when does the ticket office open?
- airline ticket office
- call the ticket office
- ticket office is not open
Examples
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The Rutgers Athletics ticket office is now accepting pre-orders for the Scarlet Knights' potential postseason destinations.
Blog text (30) -
Tickets are still available by contacting the Texas Motor Speedway ticket office.
Blog text (14) -
I gotta get to the ticket office.
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Details on the student ticket program will be sent to the university ticket offices for distribution directly to students.
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But this morning, when I went to the ticket office, the same man came inside and stood beside me.
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You'll have to go to the ticket office.
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He's waiting at the ticket office.
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Tonya is standing in front of the movie theater's ticket office.
Fiction book (2002) -
The bus to John Lennon Park will leave from the curb outside the ticket office every half hour.
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Excuse me, when does the ticket office open?
Synonyms
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A place at a theatre or cinema where people buy tickets
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A small place where people buy tickets for trains or shows
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A place at a station or theatre where people buy tickets
How Busy
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place where tickets are sold' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'ticket' (an admission/travel document) with 'office' (a place of business or service). This straightforward noun+noun composition is common cross-linguistically and follows standard English compounding, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
The phrase ticket office comes from the simple, literal image of a small window or room where people bought a paper ticket to enter an event or travel and where staff worked in the office to 'sell' them. So, it means 'a place where tickets are sold'.