ticket book
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1.7
- noun
- /ˈtɪkɪt bʊk/
:
libro de boletos
- get your ticket book
Examples
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How many ticket books did you go through?
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It's a ticket book.
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He pulls out his ticket book and writes a speeding fine.
Fiction book (1990) -
Whipping out her ticket book and talking like a criminal law book in rapid, deliberately impenetrable English, she traps the store owner in a face-reddening emotional discussion of the fact that no one has ever given him a ticket for playing music outside the store.
Fiction book (1999) -
The police officer opened his ticket book to write down the traffic violations.
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Make sure to carry your ticket book if you plan to issue citations today.
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She flipped through her ticket book to find the correct ticket for the event.
Synonyms
A small book of several tickets bought together for travel on buses or trains
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'ticket' (a document for admission or travel) with 'book' (a small booklet); it denotes a booklet made up of tickets and follows the regular noun+noun compounding pattern in English. This compositional structure is common cross-linguistically and should be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituent words.
Etymology
The noun ticket book comes from a small book full of tickets that you tear out to use. So, it means 'a book containing tickets that can be torn out and used separately'.