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ticketless

ticketless adjective: who does not have a ticket.

Adjective

ticketless (not comparable)

  1. Who does not have a ticket.
    • It has been estimated officially that every year the Indian Railways lose about £2 million from ticketless travel; but probably the real loss is even more than this.1953 November, 'Erca', “Ticket Frauds in the East”, in Railway Magazine, page 778
    • But it is still disheartening and frustrating that the rail industry has such a nonchalant approach to ticket examination and potential ticketless/fraudulent travel.2021 November 17, “Open Access: Lack of ticket checks”, in RAIL, number 944, page 64
  2. That does not use tickets.
    • It's likely that ticket offices will also be closed, as ticketless travel comes in. (The barriers will effectively pickpocket you, by debiting the bank card in your wallet rather than your proffered Oyster [Card].)2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, pages 277, 279

Origin of ticketless

From ticket + -less.

Words formed from ticketless

Questions about ticketless

What does ticketless mean?
Ticketless means who does not have a ticket.
What part of speech is ticketless?
Ticketless is an adjective.

Words near ticketless in the dictionary

  1. ticketh
  2. ticketholder
  3. ticketholders
  4. ticketing
  5. ticketings
  6. ticketless
  7. ticketlessness
  8. ticketmate
  9. ticketmates
  10. tickets
  11. tickets of leave

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