Definition of "ticket"

Harris’s victory comes 55 years after the Voting Rights Act abolished laws that disenfranchised Black Americans, 36 years after the first woman ran on a presidential ticket and four years after Democrats were devastated by the defeat of Hillary Clinton

2020 November 7, Chelsea Janes, “Kamala Harris, daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, elected nation’s first female vice president”, in Washington Post‎

"Here's the ticket. This hole's big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board."

1884, Mark Twain, chapter 34, in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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.

a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662

Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.

1633, Shackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion

I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.

1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith, page 124

"Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it."

1899, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading

[…] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.

1999, Doug Most, Always in Our Hearts, page 148

The variety of the demands of the railways for staff is almost endless. They require men with master's tickets as dock masters and to command their steamships.

1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 207