the ticket

noun

informal + somewhat old-fashioned

: the correct or most desirable thing : the thing that is needed or wanted

Compromise, now that's the ticket.

—often used in the phrase just the ticket

For a romantic dinner, candles are just the ticket.

Examples of the ticket in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sixty-eight percent of Indian Americans lean Democratic, and in the days after Harris replaced Biden on the ticket, a massive mobilization effort began. —Sakshi Venkatraman, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024

While Trump carried Kent County on his way to winning Michigan in 2016, Democrats at the top of the ticket have won there in each statewide election since 2018. —Arpan Lobo, Nushrat Rahman, Natalie Davies, Lindsay Tague, Alexander Boesch, Sarah Moore, Sophia Jundy, Mikia Lawrence, Alec Mork, Siddhi Choubey and Sonja Krohn, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024

The sitting President, in his eighties and visibly declining, had to be pressured into leaving the ticket; the Party no longer offers a signature policy at the scale of Obamacare or even a Green New Deal. —The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2024

Things were going fair to middling with his candidacy until Biden’s catastrophic, catatonic debate performance in June, which caused a major Democratic freak-out and resulted in his grudging departure from the ticket and endorsement of Harris. —Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024