RETURN TICKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does return ticket mean? 

• RETURN TICKET (noun)
  The noun RETURN TICKET has 1 sense:

1. a ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route)

  Familiarity information: RETURN TICKET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RETURN TICKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A ticket to a place and back (usually over the same route)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

return ticket; round-trip ticket

Hypernyms ("return ticket" is a kind of...):

ticket (a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "return ticket"):

day return (a return ticket (at reduced fare) for traveling both ways in the same day)

 Context examples 

That's the land of nothin' to do out there, an' I got a ticket for it—an' it ain't no return ticket, b'gosh!

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

No, but I observe the second half of a return ticket in the palm of your left glove.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"All I got is a return ticket."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)