0 a type of ticket that you can exchange for a meal
1 someone or something that you use as a way of getting regular amounts of money:
2 someone or something that provides you with the money you need to live:
I do not believe in the "meal ticket for life" theory, even if women get maintenance.
All too often it means that he clings pathetically to the desk or the bench which he occupies as the meal ticket for his future.
The meal ticket for life seems to be a myth.
The assumption behind it is that we must stamp out the "alimony drone"and end the"meal ticket for life".
It touches all of us: it is the meal ticket for so many in society.
Labour would rapidly become not just the prisoner's friend, but the barrister's meal ticket.
In every school surveyed, the average spend was higher than the value of a free school meal ticket.
The phrase that was going around at that time was that marriage should not provide a meal ticket for life.
