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Commutation ticket   Listen
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Commutation ticket  n.  A ticket for transportation at a reduced rate in consideration of some special circumstance, as increase of travel; specif., a ticket for a certain number of, or for daily, trips between neighboring places at a reduced rate, such as are commonly used by those doing business in a city and living in a suburb. Commutation tickets are excepted from the prohibition against special rates contained in the Interstate Commerce Act of Feb. 4, 1887 (), and in 145 U. S. 263 it was held that party tickets were also excepted as being "obviously within the commuting principle."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Commutation ticket" Quotes from Famous Books



... the police got through with me, and returned my pie-card I turned it in for a commutation ticket, and there are still a few feeds to the good on it. The commutation ticket is the proper card for a gentleman in straitened circumstances. You are not obliged to gorge yourself at early morn with a ...
— Snow on the Headlight - A Story of the Great Burlington Strike • Cy Warman



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