ticketing

verb

present participle of ticket
as in marking
to attach an identifying slip to the attendant quickly ticketed my coat and handed the claim stub back to me

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Recent Examples of ticketing The probe into StubHub comes as the company and the rest of the secondary ticketing business faces increasing government scrutiny, as fans continue to voice their frustrations over high ticket prices. — Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026 The West garage with a rental car exit area, parking exit ticketing plaza and long-term parking expansion will come after that. — Jason Dill, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2026 Morningstar comes to the Twin Cities after spending the last five-plus years as SVP, ticketing at Madison Square Garden Sports. — Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2026 Then the asset grows in value — not just (in terms of) TV rights, but sponsors, ticketing. — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026 Most companies run a contact center platform, a CRM, a ticketing system and internal messaging tools that don’t naturally talk to each other. — Alex Nazha, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Much to the relief of frequent festgoers, the Cinematheque updated its ticketing system this year, making the scramble for seats a little more efficient, though tickets are still challenging to come by. — Pat Saperstein, Variety, 29 Sep. 2026 The Jags — not the NFL — run the Wembley game and handle ticketing. — ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026 On the secondary market, 76ers tickets are the hottest tickets out there, according to ticketing reseller StubHub. — Jessica Golden,alex Sherman, CNBC, 28 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ticketing
  1. marking
  2. labeling
  3. tagging
  4. stamping
Verb
  • The arrangement also permitted Cuba to pay for some of the oil by sending doctors, athletic trainers, engineers, and other specialists to Venezuela, marking a significant step in the growing political and economic alliance between the two countries.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Charles saw Harry and his family in July, marking the first time the king had seen Meghan, Archie and Lilibet in person in four years.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2026
Definition of marking
Verb
  • Crime went up early in his term, and although a Times analysis cast serious doubt on links between the spike and the district attorney’s policies, Gascón’s name became shorthand for labeling a politician as soft on crime.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • After Bowers died —just months after Epstein’s death in August 2019—viral social media posts began labeling Bowers as Jeffrey Epstein’s private wealth banker, which is not true.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of labeling
Verb
  • There's no need to spend an entire weekend tagging your photo library.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
  • Start by tagging interactions by intent, not just resolution, so a pricing objection, a feature gap or a competitor mention becomes something marketing and product can query instead of disappearing the moment the ticket closes.
    — Jay Lee, Forbes.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of tagging
Verb
  • When Louise would remember the show decades later, the audience was always so electric that the room exploded into stamping feet and pounding fists.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 18 Oct. 2026
  • All this suggests that stopping illicit distillation will mean finding new attacks before stamping them out.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of stamping

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“Ticketing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ticketing. Accessed 26 Oct. 2026.

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