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ticket agency

American  

noun

  1. an agency dealing in the sale of tickets, especially theater tickets.


Etymology

Origin of ticket agency

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

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Even then the ticket agency was too powerful to beat.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2024

It styles itself as the "uncarrier", offering customers free video-streaming options, gifts, tie-ups with ticket agency StubHub, and customer-friendly data plans that have been copied by rivals.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2016

Each passenger on the ill-fated bus paid $15 for the 200-mile round trip to Mohegan Sun, said Matthew Yu, operator of Sunflower Express, the ticket agency that coordinated sales.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2011

He was an extra, occasional actor, stage manager, casting director and producer on Broadway through the 1930s and 1940s, and then worked for years at a ticket agency next door, naturally, to Sardi’s.

From New York Times • May 24, 2010

By controlling the fighter, promoting the fight and speculating in his own tickets at his Broadway ticket agency, Jacobs has now perfected a unique system for profiting in the fight business.

From Time Magazine Archive