Com`mu*ta"tion tick"et.
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 "obviously within the
commuting principle."
© Webster 1913.