ticketing, vbl. n.
(ˈtɪkɪtɪŋ)
[f. ticket v. + -ing1.]
The action of ticket v.
1. a. Marking with or as with a ticket; labelling.
| 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. vii. 228 After a process of rolling, pressing, ticketing, &c., the article is finished. 1866 Duke of Argyll Reign Law i. (ed. 4) 4 The mere ticketing and orderly assortment of external facts. |
b. The buying and selling of (airline) tickets. Freq. attrib.
| 1962 Flight International LXXXII. 382/2 If after expiry of a ‘ticketing time limit’ a provisional reservation is cancelled by a passenger, his booking deposit..must be forfeited. 1972 Accountant 28 Sept. 386/2 An International airline employing very many highly-qualified people—engineers, cabin-crew, pilots, ticketing and reservation clerks. 1977 ‘O. Jacks’ Autumn Heroes iii. 48 ‘Get the ticketing under way. Sixty-two.’..‘Can you get me sixty-two air tickets?’ 1983 Jetaway (Air New Zealand) Sept.–Oct. 26 (caption) Artist's impression of the completed ‘ticketing street’ in the West Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport. |
2. Bidding by a ‘ticket’ or written tender; with pl. a sale of ore at which the bids are made in this way. local.
| 1778 Pryce Min. Cornub. 288 The present mode of ticketing for Copper Ores. 1854 C. S. Edsall (title) Copper Ore Tables,..with the method of conducting the Ticketings. 1912 Financial Times 30 Apr., Redruth Tin Ticketing. |
3. attrib. (chiefly in sense 2).
| 1778 Pryce Min. Cornub. 288 On this ticketing day a dinner almost equal to a city feast is provided at the expence of the Mines. Ibid., A duplicate of a ticketing paper. 1839 H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc. xv. 541 The copper-ore sales, or ticketing-days, as they are termed. 1905 Holman-Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism I. 9 Securing from the ‘ticketing room’ a print of Britannia. |