Big Ticket - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: big ticketbig ticket
same as expensive but in an absolute sense referring to items of a type which are all expensive such as automobiles refrigerators or large screen television sets...
lead to
Same as cause as the roaring stock market led to an increase in the purchase of big ticket items during the 1996 Christmas season...
Commutation ticket
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 24 Stat 379 and in 145 U S 263 it was held that party tickets were also excepted as being ldquoobviously within the commuting principlerdquo...
History-ticket
History-ticket, 'history-ticket' means the ticket exhibiting such information as is required in respect of each prisoner by this Act or the rules thereunder. [Prisons Act, 1894 (9 of 1894), s. 3(6)]...
big band
A band that is the size of an orchestra usually playing mostly jazz or swing music The big band typically features both ensemble and solo playing sometimes has a lead singer and is often located in a night club where the patrons may dance to its music The big bands were popular from the late 1920s to the 1940s Contrasted with combo which has fewer players...
big bang theory
The theory that the known universe originated in an explosive event the big bang in which all of the matter and energy of the universe was contained in a single point and began to rapidly expand and evolve starting as high energy particles and radiation and as it cooled over time evolving into ordinary subatomic particles atoms and then stars and galaxies According to this theory the four dimensional space time continuum which we perceive as our universe continues to expand to the present time but it is unknown whether the expansion will continue indefinitely or eventually stop or even reverse possibly leading to a contraction to a single point sometimes referred to as the ldquobig crunchrdquo The competing ldquoSteady state Theoryrdquo gradually lost favor in the 1980s and 1990s See also big bang...
Ticket
Ticket, as a printed card or a piece of paper that gives a person a specific rights, as to attend a theatre, ride on a train, claim or purchase, etc. Webster's Words and Phrases, Permanent Edn., Vol. 25A.For a railway passenger not to produce a railway ticket on request by an officer or servant of a railway company, or to pay his fare from the place when he started, or to give the officer or servant his name and address, is summarily punishable by fine up to 40s. See FARE.A certificate indicating that the person to whom it is issued, or holder, is entitled to some right or privilege....
Big Pot
Big Pot : main pot ...
Big Apple
New York City a nickname usually written The Big Apple...
big bang
The explosive event marking the beginning of the known universe according to big bang theory the beginning of time...
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