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reˈturn ˈticket
A railway (or other) ticket which is available for the journey back from, as well as to, the place specified upon it. Also fig.
c1847J. S. Coyne in M. R. Booth Eng. Plays of 19th Cent. (1973) IV. 195 There's poor Mary White gone..to that bourne from whence no traveller gets a return ticket. 1850Thackeray Pendennis II. xxxv. 339 (heading) Chapter xxxv. Shows how Arthur had better have taken a return-ticket. 1857Hughes Tom Brown i, Going round Ireland, with a return ticket, in a fortnight. 1867Trollope Chron. Barset xxxii, He could get a return-ticket at a third-class fare. 1892E. Reeves Homeward Bound 133 We took second-class return tickets to Kandy. 1922[see come-back n.2 2]. 1946Happy 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. 1977Times 15 June 16/2 The cautious person travels from capitalism to socialism with a return ticket. |