ticket-of-leave

1. 1.

   a permit formerly given to convicts allowing them to leave prison under specific restrictions

   Broaderpass

Questions about ticket-of-leave

What does ticket-of-leave mean?

ticket-of-leave means "a permit formerly given to convicts allowing them to leave prison under specific restrictions".

How many syllables are in ticket-of-leave?

ticket-of-leave has 5 syllables and divides as tic-ke-t-o-f-le-ave under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is ticket-of-leave a common word?

ticket-of-leave is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.