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ticket_inspector

ticket inspector

See also: ticket-inspector

English

Alternative forms

ticket-inspector

Noun

ticket inspector ‎(plural ticket inspectors)

A person who checks that passengers on a train etc have a valid ticket, and marks it so that it cannot be used again.

Synonyms

conductor (mostly US)
ticket collector (UK)

Related terms

ticket inspection

Translations

person who checks passengers have a valid ticket

Chinese:
Mandarin: 查票員 (zh), 查票员 (zh) ‎(chápiàoyuán), 驗票員 (zh), 验票员 (zh) ‎(yànpiàoyuán)
Czech: revizor m
Finnish: lipuntarkastaja (fi)
French: contrôleur (fr) m, contrôleuse (fr) f
German: Kontrolleur m, Kontrolleurin f, Schaffner (de) m, Schaffnerin f (conductor)
Greek: εισπράκτορας (el) m ‎(eispráktoras)
Greenlandic: bilitsilerisoq
Italian: bigliettaio (it) m

Macedonian: кондуктер m ‎(kondukter) (conductor)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: billettkontrollør m

Nynorsk: billettkontrollør m
Polish: kontroler (pl) m, (train) konduktor (pl) m, (informal) kanar (pl) m
Portuguese: cobrador (pt)
Romanian: controlor de bilete, controlor (ro)
Russian: контролёр (ru) m ‎(kontroljór), конду́ктор (ru) m ‎(kondúktor) (conductor), проводни́к (ru) m ‎(provodník), проводни́ца (ru) f ‎(provodníca) (conductor)

See also

ticket-collector