all-ticket

adjective

all-tick·​et

British

: requiring all spectators to purchase tickets in advance for admission

… if a predicted attendance figure is greater than 75 per cent of the ground's capacity then government health and safety regulations dictate it must automatically become an all-ticket match.

—Portsmouth News, 10 Dec. 2010

Word History

First Known Use

1935, in the meaning defined above

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