ticketing

1. 1
   noununcountable

   The process of issuing or selling tickets.

   The festival outsourced its ticketing to an online platform.

   New ticketing systems cut the wait time at the gate in half.

   Similarbooking

   Note

   Transport writing is where the word does most of its work. Railway and bus planners talk about improving ticketing alongside simplifying fares, so ticketing names the system of selling while fares names the prices. The vocabulary around it varies across the Atlantic: Joseph Brennan, writing in RAIL in 2024, observes that America traditionally said ticket office where Britain said booking office.

2. 2
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of ticket.

   Police are ticketing drivers who block the bike lane.

   Ticketing scalpers has become a priority for the venue.

   Note

   The -ing form of the verb covers two quite different actions: issuing someone a ticket, often for a traffic or other legal violation, and marking an item with a ticket. As a participle it follows be (police are ticketing drivers). As a gerund it can take a direct object (ticketing scalpers), which the noun for selling tickets cannot.

3. 3
   noundatedUKcountable

   A periodic sale of ore in mining districts, where buyers submitted their bids by writing them on tickets.

   Like a sealed-bid auction, where each written offer stays hidden until all the bids are opened.

   The mine's output went to market through a monthly ticketing each spring.

   Merchants traveled to the district for the ticketing, sealing their bids on paper slips.

   Note

   The name comes from the bid slips themselves. Here the ticket is the buyer's written offer, not the product being sold, which sets it apart from the everyday selling of tickets. The term belongs to British mining and business usage and is now dated. As a countable noun it names a single sale, so a district could hold a ticketing at regular intervals.

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