return ticket

noun

a ticket for the return portion of a trip.
Chiefly British. a round-trip ticket.

Origin of return ticket

First recorded in 1840–50

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Examples from the Web for return ticket

Historical Examples of return ticket

Kitty may be on the high seas, that is, if she has taken my advice and got a return-ticket.
The Lure of the Mask
Harold MacGrath
Nineteen and sixpence is the price of a return-ticket which covers a month.
The Way of All Flesh
Samuel Butler
If I could only find just a little corner on it, with a return-ticket!
The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
Jean Henri Fabre
Mr. Cook will give you a return-ticket for the Pyramid for about that.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Jan 27, 1872
Various
It was a return-ticket, first class, for which he paid the sum of one pound four shillings.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II
Various

British Dictionary definitions for return ticket

return ticket

noun

British a ticket entitling a passenger to travel to his destination and back againUS and Canadian equivalent: round-trip ticket

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