bus ticket

collocation in English

meaningsofbusandticket

These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withbus.
bus
noun[C]
uk
/bʌs/us
/bʌs/
a large vehicle in which people are driven from one place ...
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ticket
noun[C]
uk
/ˈtɪk.ɪt/us
/ˈtɪk.ɪt/
a small piece of paper or card given to someone, usually to show that they have paid for an event, journey, ...
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(Definition ofbusandticketfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbus ticket

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The general public, when it buys abusticket, does not buy oil: it buys transport.
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A train orbusticketis probably one-tenth the price.
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His father was a privatebusticketchecker.
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He buys abusticketand leaves town.
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Has the matter been considered recently, since the average price of abusticketwent up to 1½ d.?
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People can now be prosecuted before the courts for throwing abusticketin the main street.
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The fact that one has abusticketdoes not take one to the end of the route.
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If a person takes a returnbustickethe can use that return ticket whenever he wishes.
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I sometimes wonder whether buying abusticketwould result in one ending up travelling by rail.
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We could as well be crude about it and print on abusticketthat or ld.
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Even when asked to articulate what they are proposing, simple language is distorted into incomprehensible arch-speak, which wouldn't buy them abusticket, let alone impress a potential client.
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We are all subject to alterations in cost, whether we go by railway ticket,busticket, or any other kind of ticket.
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I hold in my hand a travel permit for an old person, abusticket, and a railway card also for an old person.
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He originally wrote the lyrics on the back of abusticket.
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They were given abusticketand $20 for three days of food.
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Under that scheme one can, at long last, go into certain railway stations to buy a railway ticket and buy abusticketat the same time.
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That is especially the case when it would appear that people are being admitted on little more than abusticket, while others in similar circumstances are deported.
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She sometimes has to take a taxi in the evening, at a cost of £5 to and from the town centre, as opposed to buying a returnbusticketfor £1.40.
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He generally performs this act to a figure of authority such as abusticketcollector, a police woman, or a judge.
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For people suspected with crimes such as shoplifting or nobusticket, non-possession might result in such detention, also in countries not formally requiring identity cards.
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Shortly thereafter, at a bus station, she requests from the attendant abusticketto wherever, with consideration to the limited funds she has to spare.
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