0 Big-ticket things are things that are expensive to buy, such as cars or furniture.
1 used to describe things that cost a lot of money to buy, for example cars or furniture:
And selling state assets requires the presence of buyers with deep pockets and a privatization programme geared up to sell big-ticket items.
During the last decade, uncontrolled utilization of sophisticated or "big-ticket" technology has greatly increased public and private health expenditure.
This economy, including private health insurance, financed an explosion in "big-ticket" technology in the last ten years (35).
These instruments together offer a well-functioning regulatory mechanism for an important part of health services, especially the high technology/big-ticket items.
Based on expert opinion, some form of legal framework for the acquisition of big-ticket technologies is absent or is only applicable to the public sector in these countries.
The search for big-ticket investment, the giant projects, may be a mistake.
The big-ticket items responsible for the debt were: $14.7 million for the new multi-use sports complex; $5.5 million for street projects; and $3 million for water improvement projects.
The document, developed with extensive community consultation and containing a number of big-ticket infrastructure projects was heavily promoted across web, print and broadcast media.