ticket machine

English

A ticket machine for the train in Germany.

Noun

ticket machine (plural ticket machines)

1. (travel) A machine that prints tickets automatically after the customer determines the destination and pays for it.
   • 2023 July 26, Christian Wolmar, “Closing ticket offices to lead to 'catch-22' for passengers”, in RAIL, number 988, page 42:

     Passengers may find themselves in a catch-22 situation, unable to buy a ticket for any number of reasons, ranging from an out-of-order ticket vending machine to a lengthy queue to use one, and yet then fall foul of the penalty fare regime.

Synonyms

• ticket printer
• ticket vending machine

Translations

ticket vending machine

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 售票機／售票机 (shòupiàojī)

• Danish: billetautomat (da) c
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: piletimüügiautomaat
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Fahrscheinautomat m
• Hungarian: jegyautomata (hu), jegyértékesítő automata, jegykiadó automata
• Japanese: 自動券売機 (じどうけんばいき, jidō kenbaiki), 券売機 (ja) (けんばいき, kenbaiki)
• Korean: 자동발권기 (jadongbalgwon'gi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: billettautomat m

  Nynorsk: billettautomat m

• Polish: biletomat (pl) m, automat biletowy m, bileciarka f (dated, uncommon)
• Spanish: máquina de billetes f
• Swedish: biljettautomat (sv)
• Turkish: otomatik bilet makinası

Further reading

• ticket machine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia