one-way ticket

English

Etymology

See “one-way”

Noun

one-way ticket (plural one-way tickets)

1. A ticket granting permission to travel to a place but not back
2. (figuratively) A course of action from which there is no way back
   • (UK) Conservative Party news story:

     Voting Labour is a one way ticket to higher fuel prices.

Synonyms

• single ticket (UK)

Translations

a ticket granting permission to travel to a place but not back

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 單程票 (cmn), 单程票 (cmn) (dānchéng piào)

• Finnish: menolippu (fi)
• French: billet aller simple (fr) m
• German: einfache Fahrkarte (de) f, Einzelfahrschein (de) m

• Greek: απλό εισιτήριο (el) (apló eisitírio) 
• Japanese: 片道切符 (ja) (かたみちきっぷ, katamichi kippu), 片道 (ja) (かたみち, katamichi)
• Korean: 편도 티켓 (ko) (pyeondo tiket)
• Russian: билет в один конец (ru) (bilét v odín konéc) 

Antonyms

• round-trip ticket
• return ticket
• both-way ticket, two-way ticket (not universally accepted)