Ticket vs Coupon – What’s the difference?

Ticket vs Coupon - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between ticket and coupon is that ticket is a pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc while coupon is (obsolete) a certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.

As a verb ticket is to issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.

ticket

English

Noun

(en-noun)

  • A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
  • A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
  • A citation for a traffic violation.
  • A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
  • A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally Internet Service Provider related).
  • (informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate’s manifesto.
  • Joe has joined the party’s ticket for the county elections.
    Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket .
  • A solution to a problem; something that is needed.
  • That’s the ticket .
    I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.
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  • (dated) A little note or notice.
  • * Fuller
  • He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.
  • (dated) A tradesman’s bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket” and eventually ”on tick ).
  • * J. Cotgrave
  • Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.
  • A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
  • A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
  • Derived terms

    * automatic ticket sampling machine
    * golden ticket
    * have tickets on oneself
    * lottery ticket
    * one-way ticket
    * that’s the ticket
    * ticket machine
    * write one’s own ticket

    Verb

    (en verb )

  • To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
  • Derived terms

    * ticket off

    coupon

    English

    (wikipedia coupon )

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • (obsolete) A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.
  • (finance) Any interest payment made or due on a bond, debenture or similar (no longer by a physical coupon).
  • A section of a ticket, showing the holder to be entitled to some specified accommodation or service, as to a passage over a designated line of travel, a particular seat in a theater, a discount, etc.
  • (Scotland) The face.
  • Synonyms

    * (section of a ticket giving the holder some entitlement ): voucher

    Derived terms

    * couponer
    * couponing
    * zero coupon bond

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