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one-way ticket

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noun

  1. Also called: single ticket.  a ticket entitling a passenger to travel only to his destination, without returning

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The WSJ paid nearly $3,000 for a one-way ticket three weeks before departure, and JetBlue didn’t know I was testing the service.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 18, 2026

Personal discontent is a one-way ticket to intellectual automation.

From Salon Feb. 18, 2026

When I first flew on a one-way ticket to Chiang Mai, Thailand, in 1993, I arrived with no job, no contacts and no Thai beyond a few phrases acquired from a military language instruction cassette.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 28, 2026

Teoscar Hernández is a hack in right field, Michael Conforto needs a one-way ticket to the waiver wire and the Dodgers are a better team with Mookie Betts in right field.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 23, 2025

“That would earn you a one-way ticket to a boarding school in India.”

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed

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