Word.ws English Dictionary

writes one's own ticket

writes one's own ticket is the third-person singular simple present indicative of write one's own ticket.

Meaning of write one's own ticket

Verb

write one's own ticket (third-person singular simple present writes one's own ticket, present participle writing one's own ticket, simple past wrote one's own ticket, past participle written one's own ticket)

  1. (idiomatic) To be empowered to choose whichever job, financial arrangement, or course of action one desires.
    • Mr. DeChadenedes said that any one wishing to back the Republican candidate could write his own ticket and name his own price.1925 November 3, “Offers of 15 to 1 on Walker Go Begging”, in New York Times, page 2

Questions about writes one's own ticket

What is writes one's own ticket the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Writes one's own ticket is the third-person singular simple present indicative of write one's own ticket.

Words near writes one's own ticket in the dictionary

  1. writes down
  2. writes for the drawer
  3. writes in
  4. writes itself
  5. writes off
  6. writes one's own ticket
  7. writes out
  8. writes over
  9. writes the book
  10. writes up
  11. writest

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: writes one's own ticket (page history and authors); write one's own ticket (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “writes one's own ticket.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/writes_one%27s_own_ticket. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.