train ticket
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- noun
- /treɪn ˈtɪkɪt/
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billete de tren
- I bought a train ticket to visit my friend in New York.
- buy train tickets
- sell train tickets
- purchase a train ticket
I needed a strong firm invite from him because I had to get on a train, pay for a train ticket.
- I needed a strong firm invite from him because I had to get on a train, pay for a train ticket.
Examples
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I can't believe there are no train tickets until Thursday: there are hardly any tourists here to take them.
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Will the office get me train tickets?
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No, I wanted to pay you back for the train ticket.
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But the train tickets are turning out to be expensive.
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You still owe me fifty bucks for the train ticket.
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Here are your train tickets, Mr. Trent.
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So I headed for the station to buy my train ticket to Bilbao.
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I can't afford a train ticket.
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If you got no money to pay salaries, no money to buy train tickets, no money to rent a field, then you're broke.
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Also, almost none of the train ticket machines will accept the regular swipe cards, just chip cards or cash.
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Synonyms
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A paper or card that lets you travel by train
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a ticket that allows a person to travel on a train' is directly and compositionally derived from combining 'train' (a rail vehicle/rail service) with 'ticket' (a document granting travel), following the regular English noun+noun compounding pattern. This is a transparent, cross-linguistically common construction that a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand.
Etymology
The compound noun train ticket comes from early train travel: people bought a small paper ticket for a train, and the conductor would punch or tear it to show it was used. So, the phrase means 'a ticket that allows a person to travel on a train'.