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: --
When we compare those figures with the paltry levels of maintenance, we can see that if someone has to depend upon average maintenance it is no meal ticket for life.
It is his meal ticket.
Through that study we shall be able to gather a multitude of contextual information that was not previously available, such as the purchasing power of a free school meal ticket.
We are not seeking charity or a meal ticket for life; we are asking for assistance now so that we can work out our own destiny.
It is this which has led to the most anomalous of decisions and given rise to the legitimate element in the "meal ticket for life" complaint.
To be in employment is to have a meal ticket in our society.
The value of a school meal ticket varies considerably between local authorities; in some cases, it can be as low as 90p.
The phrase that was going around at that time was that marriage should not provide a meal ticket for life.
