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HIGH-TICKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does high-ticket mean? 

HIGH-TICKET (adjective)
  The adjective HIGH-TICKET has 1 sense:

1. very expensiveplay

  Familiarity information: HIGH-TICKET used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HIGH-TICKET (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Very expensive

Synonyms:

big-ticket; high-ticket

Context example:

a big-ticket government program

Similar:

expensive (high in price or charging high prices)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)


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