as in expensive
commanding a large price
a specialty store selling high-ticket goods to a well-heeled clientele
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Recent Examples of high-ticket
Create high-ticket offers to attract ideal clients, earn more, and work less.
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Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
Exhibits included in a sprawling fraud case show many of the high-ticket items purchased with public dollars starting in 2020, when prosecutors say dozens of people, many of them U.S. citizens of Somali descent, began defrauding a child nutrition program.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
Instead of the oil-baron excess of Dallas or the leather-and-chrome bravado of contemporary money dramas like Billions, Carter favors seductively austere minimalism and high-ticket abstract art.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2025
Entering this season, Houston was about $1.25 million under the first apron but has multiple high-ticket items looming.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Connor owns a high-ticket sales company, while Riches is attending real estate school and building a marketing portfolio.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Sep. 2025
The retailer’s selective approach and substantial array of high-ticket items may help maintain trust with consumers.
—Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
Another high-ticket item was a Helen Yarmark fur coat at $12,800 that Houston chose for a 2010 outing.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
Exhibits included in a sprawling fraud case show many of the high-ticket items purchased with public dollars starting in 2020, when prosecutors say dozens of people, many of them U.S. citizens of Somali descent, began defrauding a child nutrition program.
—Christopher Cann, USA Today, 11 Dec. 2025
Instead of the oil-baron excess of Dallas or the leather-and-chrome bravado of contemporary money dramas like Billions, Carter favors seductively austere minimalism and high-ticket abstract art.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 19 Oct. 2025
Entering this season, Houston was about $1.25 million under the first apron but has multiple high-ticket items looming.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Connor owns a high-ticket sales company, while Riches is attending real estate school and building a marketing portfolio.
—MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Sep. 2025
The retailer’s selective approach and substantial array of high-ticket items may help maintain trust with consumers.
—Star Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
Another high-ticket item was a Helen Yarmark fur coat at $12,800 that Houston chose for a 2010 outing.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for high-ticket
Adjective
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Flights, hotels and cruises are often more expensive around holidays, when demand is high.—
Natalie B. Compton The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
1 Feb. 2026
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Exploration calls as pleasure-seeking Venus forms a quincunx to jovial Jupiter, activating your 9th House of Learning with a nudge to adjust expensive plans.—
Tarot.com,
Sun Sentinel,
31 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The organization will have to hope Michkov learned a valuable lesson and comes to training camp in shape and ready to go from Day 1 next season.—
Kevin Kurz,
New York Times,
30 Jan. 2026
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Once public, OpenAI’s compensation packages may also become less attractive in some ways; new hires would receive stock options rather than pre-IPO equity, and those options may or may not prove valuable depending on the company’s post-IPO performance and stock price trajectory.—
Beatrice Nolan,
Fortune,
30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Limited-production, handmade cars can demand a lot of costly attention when fixes are in order, and in this respect, an Alvis is no different from a Rolls-Royce or Bentley of the era.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
30 Jan. 2026
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The costly giveaway led to a fast break by his former roommate at Duke.—
Mike Curtis,
Dallas Morning News,
30 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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MacBooks have a reputation for being premium machines — and for a very good reason.—
Keumars Afifi-Sabet,
Space.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Doing that helps to boost overall spending levels as high-end consumers continue to thrive, a tactic that leads to both rising fee revenue from premium cards and lower loan defaults, executives said.—
Hugh Son,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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“High-ticket.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/high-ticket. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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