excursion ticket

American  

noun

1. a round-trip ticket at a reduced fare, often for use within a limited period of time.

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Etymology

Origin of excursion ticket

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

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excursion ticket

A round-trip excursion ticket between New York and Luxembourg costs $259 in the peak season and requires no minimum stay.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was some distance from the station, but having spent all his money for his excursion ticket, he had none left for car fare.

From Two Boys and a Fortune, or, the Tyler Will by White, Matthew

Have sold my excursion ticket and will stay awhile.

From Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century by Washington, Booker T.

We come down on an excursion ticket to Boston—only three dollars an' sixty cents—an' we thought we'd surprise you.”

From Jane Field A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Pentonville was thirty-five miles distant from New York, and the fare was a dollar, but an excursion ticket, carrying a passenger both ways, was only a dollar and a half.

From The Store Boy by Alger, Horatio