return ticket
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1.0
- noun
- UK
:
billete de ida y vuelta
- She showed her return ticket to the airline staff at the check-in counter.
- buy a return ticket
- money for a return ticket
- get my return ticket
OK, They'd say, well look mate, don't buy the peak return ticket.
- OK, They'd say, well look mate, don't buy the peak return ticket.
Examples
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Indian officials strongly prefer that you have a return ticket before a visa is issued.
Fiction book (1993) -
I need to buy a return ticket for my trip to London.
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I only have the one return ticket. -
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How much can a return ticket cost?
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You have a return ticket?
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Buy a return ticket and go take care of yourself.
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I'd like a return ticket, please?
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I'd like two return tickets.
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The only things missing are the rental car and his return ticket to San Francisco.
Fiction book (1990) -
I don't even have money to pay for a return ticket .
Synonyms
8
2.1
A ticket that lets you travel to a place and back
Antonyms
How Many Trips
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'return' (to go back) modifies 'ticket' (a travel document), so it denotes a ticket allowing travel there and back. This construction is cross-linguistically common (e.g. round-trip / ida y vuelta) and follows straightforward noun-modifier patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Return ticket shows a simple image: a ticket that lets you go to a place and then return to where you started, so it means 'a ticket to travel there and back'.