Meanings
plural ticket offices
- An office or booth where tickets may be purchased to allow admittance or for travel.
On the opposite side of the concourse is the triple-counter ticket office and three self-service machines which are adjacent to a large customer service counter and the gateline.
2022 January 12, Paul Bigland, “Fab Four: the nation's finest stations: Wakefield Kirkgate”, in RAIL, number 948, page 291 more example
Traditionally, 'ticket office' seems to have been the preferred term in America, with Britain using the term 'booking office' (as an 1881 edition of The Railway Age Monthly and Railway Service Magazine explains). Today, the two are often used interchangeably (as the recent 'Save our ticket offices' campaign shows), with the term 'ticketing' perhaps capturing more of the point-of-sale transaction and issuing of tickets within stations.
2024 March 6, Dr Joseph Brennan, “England's booking offices of distinction”, in RAIL, number 1004, page 56Synonyms: booking office
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn office or booth where tickets may be purchased to allow admittance or for travel.
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Translations
Chinese Mandarin 售票處 /售票处, 票房
- 售票處 /售票处 (shòupiàochù)an office where tickets may be purchased
- 票房 (piàofáng)an office where tickets may be purchased
Danish billetkontor
- billetkontoran office where tickets may be purchased
Esperanto biletejo
- biletejoan office where tickets may be purchased
Estonian piletikassa
- piletikassaan office where tickets may be purchased
Finnish lippumyymälä, lipunmyyntipiste
- lippumyymäläan office where tickets may be purchased
- lipunmyyntipistean office where tickets may be purchased
- lippukoppian office where tickets may be purchased
- lippukassaan office where tickets may be purchased
French billetterie
- billetteriean office where tickets may be purchased
German Abendkasse, Fahrkartenschalter
- Abendkassean office where tickets may be purchased
- Fahrkartenschalteran office where tickets may be purchased
- Schalteran office where tickets may be purchased
Greek γραφείο έκδοσης εισιτηρίων
- γραφείο έκδοσης εισιτηρίων (grafeío ékdosis eisitiríon)an office where tickets may be purchased
Hungarian jegypénztár
- jegypénztáran office where tickets may be purchased
Italian biglietteria
- biglietteriaan office where tickets may be purchased
Japanese 出札所, 切符売り場
- 出札所 (shussatsujo)an office where tickets may be purchased
- 切符売り場 (kippu-uriba)an office where tickets may be purchased
Korean 매표소
- 매표소 (maepyoso)an office where tickets may be purchased
Norwegian Bokmål billettkontor
- billettkontoran office where tickets may be purchased
Polish kasa biletowa
- kasa biletowaan office where tickets may be purchased
Portuguese bilheteira
- bilheteiraan office where tickets may be purchased
Russian биле́тная ка́сса, ка́сса
- биле́тная ка́сса (bilétnaja kássa)an office where tickets may be purchased
- ка́сса (kássa)an office where tickets may be purchased
Spanish taquilla
- taquillaan office where tickets may be purchased
Swedish biljettkontor
- biljettkontoran office where tickets may be purchased
Tagalog takilya
- takilyaan office where tickets may be purchased
Turkish gişe
- gişean office where tickets may be purchased
Ukrainian квитко́ва ка́са, ка́са
- квитко́ва ка́са (kvytkóva kása)an office where tickets may be purchased
- ка́са (kása)an office where tickets may be purchased
Cite this entry
ticket office. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ticket%20office
“ticket office.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ticket%20office. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “ticket office,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/ticket%20office.
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