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season ticket en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. A ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series of related events for which individual tickets would otherwise be needed.
2. A ticket that is valid for multiple rides (limited by number of rides and/or time of travel) by public transit for which individual tickets would otherwise be needed.
   • But while the decline in season ticket sales as a proportion of fares income has continued, commuting has by no means died. Instead, people are working more flexibly. Therefore, a monthly or annual season ticket is not worthwhile. 2025 September 3, Christian Wolmar, “9 to 5: The changing face of commuting”, in RAIL, number 1043, page 57:
   • Rail fares rose above inflation by an average of 2.8% in January 2019, compared with a 2.5% rise in the Retail Price Index. But season tickets continued to decline in popularity - they now account for 20.6% of ticket revenue. 2020 January 2, “Upturn in train punctuality and in freight's fortunes”, in RAIL, page 13:
   • One of them ended its career as a passenger carrying vehicle in 1907, by freezing in Kemp Town Tunnel, to the discomfiture of some important season ticket holders, who did not hesitate to let the directors know what they thought about the incident. 1952 April, “Notes and News: Petrol Railcars on the L.B.S.C.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 279:

Forms

Synonyms

multi-pass ticket (public-transit ticket for multiple rides)

Translations (26)

ja 定期券 (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · crh abonement (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · ru проездно́й биле́т (public-transit ticket for multiple rides) · nb sesongkort (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · hu bérlet (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · cy tocyn tymor (public-transit ticket for multiple rides) · hy աբոնեմենտ (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · ru сезо́нный биле́т (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · cy tocyn tymor (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · ru сезо́нный биле́т (public-transit ticket for multiple rides) · es abono de temporada (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · hu bérlet (public-transit ticket for multiple rides) · fr abonnement (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · de Abonnement (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · hy մշտական (public-transit ticket for multiple rides) · ru проездно́й (public-transit ticket for multiple rides) · mhr абонемент (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · ja 定期乗車券 (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · de Saisonkarte (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · de Zeitkarte (public-transit ticket for multiple rides) · cmn 季票 (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · nn sesongkort (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · ru абонеме́нт (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · fi kausilippu (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · da sæsonkort (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series) · el εισιτήριο διαρκείας (ticket that is valid for all of the events in a series)