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noun

a ticket for a specified series or number of events or valid for unlimited use during a specified time, often sold at a reduced rate, for athletic events, concerts, transportation, etc.

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Origin of season ticket

First recorded in 1810–20

Words nearby season ticket

seasonal affective disorder, seasonality, seasonal unemployment, season creep, seasoning, season ticket, sea spider, sea squab, sea squill, sea squirt, sea stack

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How to use season ticket in a sentence

The Washington Nationals will play in front of 5,000 socially distanced fans, at least at first, with the crowd consisting primarily of season ticket holders sitting in pods of up to six people.
What can I do in the D.C. area right now? Festivals, museums and restaurants are coming back.|Fritz Hahn|April 8, 2021|Washington Post
My family and friends, with our fractional season ticket plan, certainly won’t make the cut for tickets at that limit.
Everyone has feelings about crowd size at ballgames. Let’s stick with facts.|Thomas M. Boswell|March 18, 2021|Washington Post
Until I was 40, and I said I’ve got to figure out what to do, and I bought season tickets for me and for him, at the Eagles, so that we can have something in common.
Making a Killing With Jim Cramer|Eugene Robinson|February 1, 2021|Ozy
In Boston, Miles Arnone took over as primary owner before the 2019-20 season, and the team saw season ticket sales double within a year, according to team President Hayley Moore.
Women’s Hockey Is Seeing A Sponsorship Boom|Marisa Ingemi|January 26, 2021|FiveThirtyEight

While searching for tickets from the Cubs’ three-game 2016 series at Houston, Fuller found a man on Facebook who had posted a photo of his Astros season ticket booklet before the season.
A Cubs fan needed one ticket to complete his epic collection. A Nats fan came through.|Scott Allen|December 26, 2020|Washington Post
The chance to hold up a championship, not to a happy owner or satisfied season-ticket base, but a country.
Gabby Douglas, Ryan Lochte: Why Families of America’s Olympics Athletes Are Broke|Kevin Fallon|August 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
So older season-ticket holders who used to buy eight-to-10 tickets every year were instead more likely to purchase two or four.
Penn State's Economic Fallout: Will the Sandusky Scandal Sink a Whole City?|Matthew Zeitlin|July 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Craig Soignet has been a football season-ticket holder for more than 25 years.
Forced to Cheer for Her Attacker|Jessica Bennett|September 15, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Cozens has a conscience—a conformist conscience—and is a first-class season-ticket holder.
Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 9, 1919|Various
Druids performed their religious rites in groves, and knew nothing of church mortgages and the season-ticket system of pew rents.
The Devil's Dictionary|Ambrose Bierce
Mrs. Hurstwood had never asked for a whole season ticket before, but this year certain considerations decided her to get a box.
Sister Carrie|Theodore Dreiser
Over two hundred season-ticket-holders live within a mile radius at Southend.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 16, 1919|Various
We suppose there must be some attraction at Southend to explain why so many season-ticket-holders live there.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, April 16, 1919|Various

British Dictionary definitions for season ticket

season ticket

noun

a ticket for a series of events, number of journeys, etc, within a limited time, usually obtained at a reduced rate

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