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TICKET OFFICE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ticket office mean?
• TICKET OFFICE (noun)
The noun TICKET OFFICE has 1 sense:
1. the office where tickets of admission are sold
Familiarity information: TICKET OFFICE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The office where tickets of admission are sold
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
box office; ticket booth; ticket office
Hypernyms ("ticket office" is a kind of...):
business office; office (place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed)
Holonyms ("ticket office" is a part of...):
house; theater; theatre (a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented)
Context examples
The clerk in the ticket office was able to say with confidence that he saw Cadogan West—whom he knew well by sight—upon the Monday night, and that he went to London by the 8:15 to London Bridge.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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