ticket window
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- noun
:
ventanilla de boletos
- The railway system, which, due to its low cost, carries the bulk of travelers, switched for the first time this year to an online booking system to relieve the pressure at ticket windows.
- ticket window is open
- line at the ticket window
- go to the ticket window
Examples
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My daughter and I arrived early one game to go to the season ticket window to try to upgrade our tickets.
Blog text (10) -
Hurrying to the ticket window, he gets in line.
Fiction book (1990) -
Is there a ticket window somewhere?
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We got to the ticket window only to find the showing we wanted to see was sold out, as was the next one.
Blog text (18) -
Or just ask at the ticket window in Innsbruck.
Blog text (1) -
He walks up to the ticket window.
Fiction book (1999) -
I am standing at the ticket window in Helsinki railroad station.
Fiction book (2002) -
At the ticket window, she clicks down coins, snatches the tickets, and calls, "Quick, run!"
Fiction book (2001) -
One-way transfers can be purchased at the 2nd and King St. AT&T Park ticket windows from 3 PM until one hour after the game.
Blog text (26) -
You can buy your concert tickets at the ticket window near the entrance.
Synonyms
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1.0
A place where people get tickets for trains, shows and events
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1.4
A small place where people buy tickets for trains or shows
How Busy
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'ticket' (the thing sold) + 'window' (a service opening/counter) yields a window where tickets are sold. Although 'window' has a service-counter sense (not just literal glass), that polysemy is common and easily inferable; many languages use the same logic, so a B1 learner who knows both words will understand the meaning.
Etymology
Ticket window comes from a small opening or counter where a person sells tickets and passes them through the window. That's why it now means 'a place at a station or theatre where you buy tickets'.