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ticket inspectors

ticket inspectors is the plural of ticket inspector.

Meaning of ticket inspector

Noun

ticket inspector (plural ticket inspectors)

  1. A person who checks that passengers on public transport (such as trains or buses) have valid tickets for their journey and, in some systems, to mark or scan those tickets so they cannot be reused.
    • This was the first long train journey I ever took, and the details remain in my memory as sharply as if they had taken place last week. Hopping on the Circle Line to King's Cross, boarding the compartmentalised train, the kindly ticket inspectors, and every station where the Grimsby express stopped...2021 July 28, Christian Wolmar, “Forgotten by the railways, but ripe for the exploring”, in RAIL, number 936, page 34

Questions about ticket inspectors

What is ticket inspectors the plural of?
Ticket inspectors is the plural of ticket inspector.

Words near ticket inspectors in the dictionary

  1. ticket hall
  2. ticket halls
  3. ticket inspection
  4. ticket inspections
  5. ticket inspector
  6. ticket inspectors
  7. ticket machine
  8. ticket machines
  9. ticket of leave
  10. ticket of occupation
  11. ticket office

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