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ticketing

ticketing

4 3.0
Selling and handling entry passes for events or travel
  • noun
  • /ˈtɪkɪtɪŋ/
translation icon : venta de boletos
  • He experienced delays due to issues with the concert ticketing app.
  • electronic ticketing
  • online ticketing
  • ticketing service

Examples

  • Metrolink would be even better served by combining ticketing and schedules with the MTA to maximize the effectiveness of bus-rail and rail-rail transfers.

    Blog text (14)
  • Airline ticketing is an example of this invisible economy.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Go to the ticketing machine.

  • Well, who better to tell us how it's done than Brown Paper Tickets, a local online event and ticketing company?

    Blog text (34)
  • Passenger Jones, please see the ticketing agents at the gate.

  • Ticketing information for the outing is available now at the band's website.

    Blog text (1)
  • An overview of the festivities and ticketing information can be found via the band's Facebook.

    Blog text (25)
  • Electronic ticketing lets conductors work faster; electronic payments free up food staff from counting pennies and nickels.

    Blog text (7)
  • Late one afternoon, after the bus to Sri Aman had left the station, I asked Geok Bee, a ticketing clerk, how the passengers inquired about the Sri Aman buses.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The festival's ticketing system allows you to purchase passes easily online.

Synonyms

booking
vsticketing
31 1.0

An arrangement made in advance to keep a seat, room, or time for you

handles selling and issuing for events, travel, or services rather than only reserving

How Automated

ticketing
  • Jargon
1 3.7
ticketing
4 3.0
box office
22 1.8

Surface Forms

ticketing singular
ticketings plural

Morphology

ticketing = ticket (transparent) = ticket + ing

Refers to the process of selling or issuing tickets and is a direct nominalization from 'ticket' + -ing.

Etymology

Ticketing comes from the word ticket, a 'small paper' that lets you enter or travel, plus -ing meaning 'the process of'. Think of a concert or train ticket; ticketing is the whole process of selling, issuing, or managing those tickets.