A ticket is Definition and meaning of the word

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What is a ticket? When this word is spoken, we immediately remember the ticket that we need to buy in order to travel by bus, train or fly by plane. But it turns out that tickets are different and are used not only in transport, but also in other areas. Let's consider in more detail that this is a ticket.

Dictionary interpretation

What does a ticket mean? The definition of this word in the dictionary is as follows:

1. One of the types of documents confirming a person's right to receive some kind of service, to use something. It could be a ticket for a trolley ride or a play.
2. A leaflet or a card on which the text is located, which has a particular purpose. An example is an exam ticket.
3. A document that is evidence of membership in any of the organizations. For example, a trade union or reader's ticket.

Deprecated values

There are also obsolete meanings of the word "ticket". Among them are such as:

1. Receipt,used to confirm that the service has been provided. Before the October Revolution in Russia, such a ticket was issued as a certificate of services rendered, for example, by a doctor, a teacher. And also as evidence of the fact of payment for such services.
2. Paper banknote. Example - Tickets of the Bank of the Russian Empire.
3. A document that was used in the Russian Empire instead of a passport until 1917.

The word "ticket" came into Russian from French in the middle of the 15th century. There it was formed from the Old French billetus, which meant concepts such as:

• letter;
• note;
• testimony;
• ID.

Some ticket details

A ticket is a document confirming the possession of a certain right by the person who presents it. The validity of the specified document may or may not have a time limit.

For example, tickets are needed in order to travel by public transport (one or more times). And they are also required when visiting various kinds of events. In the second case, they can be provided free of charge - these are invitation cards.

Existing rules suggest that tickets are not equal to money and do not have free circulation. They are not considered as a universal equivalent of the cost of other goods or services. It is also not legal to exchange them for money or goods in unlimited quantities.

However, in limited quantities fromtickets can be used to perform such operations as sale, purchase, exchange, donation. They also act as collectibles.

For public transport

A transport ticket is a document that confirms a person's right to use one of the means of transportation. There are tickets that allow you to make a single trip, and there are those that give you the opportunity to travel multiple times or for a specified period. The latter include subscription tickets, commonly called travel cards.

When a ticket is used once, it is either marked in some way, or it is withdrawn, thereby excluding the possibility of reuse. In Soviet times, these tickets had six-digit numbers.

Then there was a kind of game, according to the rules of which, by performing a series of arithmetic operations with the indicated numbers, it was possible to determine the “lucky ticket”. Some people even thought of eating it.

In gambling

In continuation of the consideration of the question that this is a ticket, it should be noted that it is also used in lotteries. These are organized games of chance, where gain or loss is dependent on which number is chosen at random.

Usually it is written in the lottery ticket itself. Those funds received from the sale of tickets are distributed between the players and the organizers, and part of them is withdrawngovernment in the form of taxes.

For party members

In party ranks, a ticket is a document required to confirm that its owner is a member of a particular party. It also has such a short name as "party card". Possession of such paper makes it possible to vote at meetings.

Another ticket is needed in order to be able to keep party records. Currently, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has not established any regulations that put forward uniform requirements for such documents. They can be issued both on paper and in the form of plastic cards.

In the Soviet Union, where there was only one party - the communist - the membership card was of great importance, similar to that given to the passport.

And this document also had a symbolic meaning. So, for the soldiers who during the Great Patriotic War left the encirclement or retreated as part of scattered groups, their preservation could become a decisive factor in their future fate. Representatives of the NKVD bodies, who subjected them to verification, paid special attention to this. Party cards of those who died were returned to the party organization, which included their former owners.