"ticket inspection" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈtɪkɪt ɪnˈspɛkʃən/ [UK], /ˈtɪkət ɪnˈspɛkʃən/ [US] Forms: ticket inspections [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛkʃən Etymology: ticket + inspection Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} ticket inspection (countable and uncountable, plural ticket inspections)
  1. The act of inspecting a passenger's ticket (especially on a train or bus) with the intent of disallowing the passenger to ride for free. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: ticket inspector Translations (inspection of a passenger's ticket): Fahrkartenkontrolle [feminine] (German), 検札 (kensatsu) (alt: けんさつ) (Japanese)

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2016 April 12, Tom Chesshyre, Ticket to Ride: Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys, Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Apparently I must wait in my cabin for a ticket inspection by a guard before I can go anywhere. Then she asks, 'Tea? Coffee?' Beer, I suppose, can wait, so I say, 'Dah, spasiba. Tea.' She replies, 'Meee-ilk?' 'Dah.",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "inspection of a passenger's ticket",
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          "word": "Fahrkartenkontrolle"
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          "sense": "inspection of a passenger's ticket",
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  "word": "ticket inspection"
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          "ref": "2016 April 12, Tom Chesshyre, Ticket to Ride: Around the World on 49 Unusual Train Journeys, Summersdale Publishers LTD - ROW, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Apparently I must wait in my cabin for a ticket inspection by a guard before I can go anywhere. Then she asks, 'Tea? Coffee?' Beer, I suppose, can wait, so I say, 'Dah, spasiba. Tea.' She replies, 'Meee-ilk?' 'Dah.",
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      "sense": "inspection of a passenger's ticket",
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      "word": "Fahrkartenkontrolle"
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