| 词汇 | ticket-tout |
| 释义 | ticket tout noun[ C ] UKukus(alsotout); (USscalper) someone who buys several tickets for an event that are difficult to get, in order to sell them at a much higher price: Ticket touts are asking €500 a seat. Examples of ticket toutticket tout At the stadium, she persuades a reluctant tickettout to sell her a ticket; he only agrees to do so at an inflated price. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Such a fine operates as little disincentive to a tickettout who may stand to make many hundreds of pounds in an afternoon's work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I would never buy from a tickettout. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If that were not so, the tickettout would hardly think it worth the risk. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore if one wishes to eliminate the unsavoury type of tickettout one must encourage the promoters to get their prices right in the first place. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Until 1985 the tickettout was the odd man out and could be regarded as a kind of sporting vagabond making a bit on the side. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Since 2011, organizers have a strict policy on ticket sales and employ tactics to stop ticket touts and gate crashers. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Newspapers of the late 1940s and 1950s often use both terms in the same article about the same person when dealing with ticket touts, fraudsters and black market traders. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It is not just football that has fallen victim to the universally condemned action of ticket touts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We always hear that when the subject of ticket touts comes up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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