return ticketn.
/rᵻˈtəːn ˌtɪkɪt/, U.S. /rəˈtərn ˌtɪkᵻt/, /riˈtərn ˌtɪkᵻt/ A ticket for a journey (by rail, bus, boat, plane, etc.) which is valid for transport back from, as well as to, the specified destination. Also: a ticket, or second part of a ticket, covering a return journey. Also figurative.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > ticket for a public conveyance > single or return
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1833 Times 14 Oct. 1/5 (advt.) Fares to and from Greenwich, 2s. 6d. either way. Persons taking return tickets, 4s.
1847 J. S. Coyne How to settle Accts. with Laundress 13 There's poor Mary White gone..to that bourne from whence no traveller gets a return ticket.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxxv. 339 (heading) Chapter xxxv. Shows how Arthur had better have taken a return-ticket.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days i. i. 7 Going round Ireland with a return ticket, in a fortnight.
1879 T. H. Sayre Strategist (MS) i. 13 Mrs. H. I fear I am not long for this world. Pepper. Check your baggage clean through when you leave it, and don't buy a return ticket.
1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 133 We took second-class return tickets to Kandy.
1922 A. S. M. Hutchinson This Freedom ii. viii. 148 For a woman there is no come-back. They don't issue return tickets to women.
1946 Happy Landings July 8/3 If you take your parachute into the air you have a certain return ticket, and one that, should you need to use it, will bring you safely down to earth.
1977 Times 15 June 16/2 The cautious person travels from capitalism to socialism with a return ticket.
2007 Sunday Times Trav. May 117/2 Purchase a normal return ticket to New Zealand with Air New Zealand and layovers in Los Angeles and Hong Kong will be thrown in free.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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