Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or practice of affixing tickets to anything, or of giving tickets for it: as, the ticketing of goods or of passengers.
  • noun The selling of ore by ticket. See ticket, n., 6.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A periodical sale of ore in the English mining districts; -- so called from the tickets upon which are written the bids of the buyers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The issuing or selling of tickets
  • noun UK, mining, dated A periodic sale of ore in the mining districts, in which buyers wrote their bids upon tickets.

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Examples

  • Smoking lounges located in ticketing areas of Terminals 2 and 3, on Concourse A (near Gate A-2) and in the Concourse B food court.

    Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport 2010

  • It is likely that the All England Club, which made a £31m surplus in 2010, would approach any development of Court One with a similar external cash-raising exercise, which guarantees long-term ticketing allocations to subscribers.

    Wimbledon 2011: Court One may also get a roof 2011

  • It is likely that the All England Club, which made a £31m surplus in 2010, would approach any development of Court One with a similar external cash-raising exercise, which guarantees long-term ticketing allocations to subscribers.

    Wimbledon 2011: Court One may also get a roof 2011

  • And I'm leaving for work at 8: 25, just like I do every morning, because I know you begin ticketing at 8: 30.

    July 22nd, 2005 2005

  • Well, I think it’s not a hard case to make that enforcing a tax through law enforcement ticketing is pretty inefficient and unfair (my radar detector managed to get me a 100% deduction in this year’s “speed tax”).

    Matthew Yglesias » LA Contemplates Further Smoking Restrictions 2009

  • Bhairavi Desai, who runs the Taxi Workers Alliance, a taxi driver advocacy group, called ticketing of unlicensed drivers with the technology "problematic."

    License Crackdown Latest to Use Cab Computers 2010

  • We know that this area is being called a ticketing bomb by Mohammed ElBaradei, the head of the IAEA, when it comes to nuclear development.

    CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2009 2009

  • The ticketing is a nightmare in Madrid Puerta de Atocha because there's always a lot of people there.

    unknown title 2009

  • During that meeting, Fourth Ward Councilman Jerry Wade, who said he was originally "not very excited" about the idea of ticketing, said he supported Thumper's plans.

    Columbia Missourian: Latest Articles 2009

  • City Councilman D. Michael Collins calls the ticketing "Mickey Mouse nonsense."

    News for WNCT 2009

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  • Is it not also a present participle of the verb 'to ticket'? If the police were "ticketing speeders on Lauderdale" Road (see @hawkstv opposite), that sounds to me more like a verbal use than a noun.

    October 31, 2011

  • The tweets are not 'fixed' here but roll past and are updated. You should quote a tweet to which you refer as there is no guarantee it will still be displayed when any other reader arrives at your comment.

    All English verbs have a gerund or continuous participle ending in -ing, it's highly unremarkable.

    November 1, 2011