return ticket

American  

noun

return tickets plural

1. a ticket for the return portion of a trip.

2. Chiefly British. a round-trip ticket.

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return ticket British  

noun

1. US and Canadian equivalent: round-trip ticket.  a ticket entitling a passenger to travel to his destination and back again

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• return tickets
  plural

Etymology

Origin of return ticket

First recorded in 1840–50

Example Sentences

California law mandates that licensed rehab facilities offer patients a return ticket home if they had provided travel to the state.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

BBC Scotland has compared that information with the cost of the cheapest off-peak return ticket available on that route today.

From BBC • Sep. 13, 2023

“After I landed, I threw the return ticket away,” recalls Stevens, a retired publicist from Philadelphia.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 26, 2023

He had a return ticket to Los Angeles for December.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 24, 2022

Gabriel had turned in his return ticket in order to stay in Paris, selling the old newspapers and empty bottles that the chambermaids threw out of a gloomy hotel on the Rue Dauphine.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez