a printed card or piece of paper entitling its holder to the use of certain services, e.g. a library, showing that a fare or admission has been paid, etc
a document that serves as a certificate, licence, or permit, esp a mariner's or pilot's certificate
a tag or label
an official notification issued to somebody who has violated a traffic regulation
chiefly NAmer
a list of candidates for nomination or election
a declaration of political principles and policies; = platform
Brit, informal a certificate of discharge from the armed forces
be (just) the ticket
informal the correct, proper, or desirable thing
[Prob based on various meanings of ticket: the political meaning (4), the slips of paper formerly given by charities to paupers and exchangeable for food and clothing, and the winning ticket in a lottery.][obsolete French etiquet (now étiquette) notice attached to something, from early French estiquet, from estiquier to attach, from Middle Dutch steken to stick]