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write one's own ticket en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (idiomatic) To be empowered to choose whichever job, financial arrangement, or course of action one desires.
    • “If you were a software engineer five years ago, you could kind of write your ticket,” says Mike Robbins, an executive coach who has worked with companies like Google, Microsoft, Salesforce and Airbnb. 2026 February 17, Arielle Pardes, quoting Mike Robbins, “12-hour days, no weekends: the anxiety driving AI’s brutal work culture is a warning for all of us”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
    • Mr. DeChadenedes said that any one wishing to back the Republican candidate could write his own ticket and name his own price. 1925 November 3, “Offers of 15 to 1 on Walker Go Begging”, in New York Times, page 2:
    • Parker figured that in the interim, the record companies would sell out their stock of Elvis' recordings, and that the King could write his own ticket when he returned, in both the recording and the film industries. Parker was right. 2002 August 12, Lee Siegel, “Long Live the King”, in Time:

Forms

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write one's ticket alternative lexicographic
writes one's own ticket Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
wrote one's own ticket Tense=Past lexicographic
writing one's own ticket Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
written one's own ticket Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic