"ticket inspector" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: ticket inspectors [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} ticket inspector (plural ticket inspectors)
  1. A person who checks that passengers on a train etc have a valid ticket, and marks it so that it cannot be used again. Categories (topical): Occupations, People Synonyms: conductor [US], ticket collector [UK], ticket-inspector Related terms: ticket inspection, ticket-collector Translations (person who checks passengers have a valid ticket): nəzarətçi (Azerbaijani), revisor [masculine] (Catalan), revisora [feminine] (Catalan), 查票員 (Chinese Mandarin), 查票员 (chápiàoyuán) (Chinese Mandarin), 驗票員 (Chinese Mandarin), 验票员 (yànpiàoyuán) (Chinese Mandarin), revizor [masculine] (Czech), billetkontrollør [common-gender] (Danish), lipuntarkastaja (Finnish), contrôleur [masculine] (French), contrôleuse [feminine] (French), Kontrolleur [masculine] (German), Kontrolleurin [feminine] (German), Schaffner [masculine] (German), Schaffnerin (english: conductor) [feminine] (German), εισπράκτορας (eispráktoras) [masculine] (Greek), bilitsilerisoq (Greenlandic), ellenőr (Hungarian), jegyellenőr (Hungarian), jegyvizsgáló (Hungarian), bigliettaio [masculine] (Italian), кондуктер (kondukter) (english: conductor) [masculine] (Macedonian), billettkontrollør [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), billettkontrollør [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kontroler [masculine] (Polish), konduktor (english: train) [masculine] (Polish), kanar [informal, masculine] (Polish), cobrador (Portuguese), revisor (Portuguese), pica [masculine] (Portuguese), controlor de bilete [masculine] (Romanian), controloare de bilete [feminine] (Romanian), контролёр (kontroljór) [masculine] (Russian), конду́ктор (kondúktor) (english: conductor) [masculine] (Russian), проводни́к (provodník) [masculine] (Russian), проводни́ца (provodníca) (english: conductor) [feminine] (Russian), revisor [masculine] (Spanish), biljettkontrollant [common-gender] (Swedish), bilet denetçisi (Turkish)

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      "english": "conductor",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "provodníca",
      "sense": "person who checks passengers have a valid ticket",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "проводни́ца"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "person who checks passengers have a valid ticket",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "revisor"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "person who checks passengers have a valid ticket",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "biljettkontrollant"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "person who checks passengers have a valid ticket",
      "word": "bilet denetçisi"
    }
  ],
  "word": "ticket inspector"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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