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meal ticket

meal ticket noun: a ticket or voucher that can be exchanged for food.

Noun

meal ticket (plural meal tickets)

  1. A ticket or voucher that can be exchanged for food.
    • Volunteers are provided with a meal ticket for every four hours of service.
    Synonyms:
    bread ticket
  2. (idiomatic) Someone or something that provides income or livelihood, especially as an exploited source.
    • I don't enjoy this job, but it is my meal ticket.
    Synonyms:
    bread ticket

meal ticket meaning in Tamil

meal ticket in Tamil

உணவுச் சீட்டு, சோறு போடுபவர், வாழ்வாதாரம்

Synonyms of meal ticket

Forms of meal ticket

pluralmeal tickets

Questions about meal ticket

What does meal ticket mean?
Meal ticket means a ticket or voucher that can be exchanged for food.
What is meal ticket in Tamil?
Meal ticket in Tamil is உணவுச் சீட்டு, சோறு போடுபவர், வாழ்வாதாரம். See Meal ticket meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is meal ticket?
Meal ticket is a noun.
What is the plural of meal ticket?
The plural of meal ticket is meal tickets.

Words near meal ticket in the dictionary

  1. meal moths
  2. meal prep
  3. meal station
  4. meal stations
  5. Meal Team Six
  6. meal ticket
  7. meal tickets
  8. meal voucher
  9. meal vouchers
  10. meal-monger
  11. meal-mongers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: meal ticket (page history and authors); meal ticket (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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