steady ticket
n.— «The temps weren’t happy with these developments. The day before, it looked like they would all be on a steady ticket for a while—perhaps a couple months worth of work—and now the day after they didn’t know if they would work the rest of that week.» —“Birmingham” by M. Blake 3711 Atlantic Summer, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
A Michigan biologist wonders how the Carp River in his home state got its name, considering that the river was so named long before that particular fish was introduced. I turns out, just as in the rest of the Western Hemisphere, Europeans who...
Ross in Lyme, New Hampshire wonders what those machines that dispense tickets at the entrance to a parking garage are called. In the business, they’re referred to as ticket spitters, entry stations, or parking ticket dispensers. This is part...