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ticket inspector en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. A person who checks that passengers on public transport (such as trains or buses) have valid tickets for their journey and, in some systems, to mark or scan those tickets so they cannot be reused.
   • This was the first long train journey I ever took, and the details remain in my memory as sharply as if they had taken place last week. Hopping on the Circle Line to King's Cross, boarding the compartmentalised train, the kindly ticket inspectors, and every station where the Grimsby express stopped (in those days it didn't go through to Cleethorpes). 2021 July 28, Christian Wolmar, “Forgotten by the railways, but ripe for the exploring”, in RAIL, number 936, page 34:

Forms

Relateds

ticket inspection · ticket-collector

Synonyms

ticket collector · conductor

Translations (43)

sv biljettkontrollant (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · ro controlor de bilete (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · de Schaffnerin (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · ca revisor (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · fr contrôleur (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · ro controloare de bilete (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · pt revisor (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · fr contrôleuse (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · pl konduktor (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · es revisor (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · pt pica (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · pt cobrador (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · ca revisora (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · de Fahrscheinkontrollor (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · de Fahrscheinkontrolleur (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · mk кондуктер (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · de Kontrolleurin (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · hu jegyvizsgáló (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · de Schaffner (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · nb billettkontrollør (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · fi lipuntarkastaja (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · cs revizor (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · hu ellenőr (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · ru контролёр (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · kl bilitsilerisoq (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · hu jegyellenőr (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · pl kanar (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · cmn 查票員 /查票员 (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · ru проводни́к (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · pl kontrolerka (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · ru проводни́ца (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · de Kontrolleur (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · pl kontroler (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · de Schwarzkappler (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · az nəzarətçi (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · it bigliettaio (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · el εισπράκτορας (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · pl konduktorka (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · tr bilet denetçisi (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · cmn 驗票員 /验票员 (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · da billetkontrollør (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · ru конду́ктор (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket) · nn billettkontrollør (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket)