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noun

tout

someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit

In a sentence

Six example sentences with tout, each labelled with its topic.

  • Outside the arena a tout was asking three times face value for seats in the upper tier.

    Music

  • The club installed name checks at the gate, and within a season the touts outside the stadium had mostly vanished.

    Basketball

  • New rules make it an offence for a tout to list seats above face value, with fines for repeat offenders.

    Law

  • An economist sees a tout as proof that face value was set well below what the keenest fans would pay.

    Economics

  • Ticketing sites added queue software to slow the bots a tout runs to grab hundreds of seats in seconds.

    Technology

  • Outside the premiere a tout offered festival passes at four times the printed price to anyone who looked hopeful.

    Movies

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