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maintenance ticket

A maintenance ticket is a record of a request for repair work on a dwelling, building, or the fixtures or equipment in it.

In plain English

It is the recorded entry used to track that repair work has been requested. The request can be about a home or building, or about fixtures or equipment in it.

In context

Here, "maintenance ticket" names the recorded request for repair work that has been logged in the online system.

Situation
Signing leases, communicating with property managers, and tracking tenancy administration
What it communicates
names the logged repair request in the online system

Meaning limits

The term identifies the record of the repair request, not the condition of the repair work itself.

Examples

“The leak was still dripping, but the maintenance ticket for the kitchen sink had been filed that morning.”

Core meaning

“After the tenant uploaded photos of the loose window handle, the maintenance ticket appeared in the online system.”

In context