Meanings
plural ticket inspectors · alternative ticket-inspector
- A person who checks that passengers on public transport (such as trains or buses) have valid tickets for their journey and, in some systems, to mark or scan those tickets so they cannot be reused.
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This was the first long train journey I ever took, and the details remain in my memory as sharply as if they had taken place last week. Hopping on the Circle Line to King's Cross, boarding the compartmentalised train, the kindly ticket inspectors, and every station where the Grimsby express stopped (in those days it didn't go through to Cleethorpes).
2021 July 28, Christian Wolmar, “Forgotten by the railways, but ripe for the exploring”, in RAIL, number 936, page 34Synonyms: conductor, ticket collector
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA person who checks that passengers on public transport (such as trains or buses) have valid tickets for their journey and, in some systems, to mark or scan those tickets so they cannot be reused.
Translations
Catalan revisor, revisora
- revisorperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- revisoraperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Chinese Mandarin 查票員 /查票员, 驗票員 /验票员
- 查票員 /查票员 (chápiàoyuán)person who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- 驗票員 /验票员 (yànpiàoyuán)person who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Czech revizor
- revizorperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Danish billetkontrollør
- billetkontrollørperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Finnish lipuntarkastaja
- lipuntarkastajaperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
French contrôleur, contrôleuse
- contrôleurperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- contrôleuseperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
German Fahrscheinkontrolleur, Fahrscheinkontrollor
- Fahrscheinkontrolleurperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- Fahrscheinkontrollorperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- Kontrolleurperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- Kontrolleurinperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- Schaffnerperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- Schaffnerinperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- Schwarzkapplerperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Greek εισπράκτορας
- εισπράκτορας (eispráktoras)person who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Hungarian ellenőr, jegyellenőr
- ellenőrperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- jegyellenőrperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- jegyvizsgálóperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Italian bigliettaio
- bigliettaioperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Norwegian Bokmål billettkontrollør
- billettkontrollørperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Polish kontroler, kontrolerka
- kontrolerperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- kontrolerkaperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- konduktorperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- konduktorkaperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- kanarperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Portuguese cobrador, revisor
- cobradorperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- revisorperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- picaperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Romanian controlor de bilete, controloare de bilete
- controlor de bileteperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- controloare de bileteperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Russian контролёр, конду́ктор
- контролёр (kontroljór)person who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- конду́ктор (kondúktor)person who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- проводни́к (provodník)person who checks passengers have a valid ticket
- проводни́ца (provodníca)person who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Spanish revisor
- revisorperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Swedish biljettkontrollant
- biljettkontrollantperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Turkish bilet denetçisi
- bilet denetçisiperson who checks passengers have a valid ticket
Cite this entry
ticket inspector. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ticket%20inspector
“ticket inspector.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ticket%20inspector. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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