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platform ticket

noun

, British.
  1. a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.


platform ticket

noun

  1. a ticket for admission to railway platforms but not for travel
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of platform ticket1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

In 2008 the National Football League launched its own resale platform, Ticket Exchange, with Live Nation Entertainment Inc. LYV 0.26 % ’s Ticketmaster, but left it up to individual teams to encourage or enforce its use.

The platform ticket entitles you to walk on to the platform from which the Brighton train starts, and, when it is just moving out and all the tickets have been looked at, you will leap on board.

Remembering the ruse which the friendly guide at Rotterdam had taught me, I began by purchasing a platform ticket.

Then I hurried past the main-line platforms over the suburban side, where I gave up my platform ticket and descended again to the street.

When you have satisfied yourself that I'm correct in what I say, take a platform ticket and walk upstairs to platform No. 5.

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