suspend ticket sales

English translation: yes. stop the sale.

01:40 Jul 28, 2007

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music

English term or phrase: suspend ticket sales

'the 2007 Sydney BDO show sold out in record time of just 12 hours, breaking the previous record of 9 days. Due to this, organisers were forced to suspend ticket sales with 10,000 tickets to the show remaining'

I don't quite understand the meaning of suspend ticket sales.Does it mean stop to sale?But At the begining of the sentence it said that the ticket was sold out,and why still left 10000 tickets?

Shirley Fan KudoZ activity Questions: 678 (9 open) (3 without valid answers) (1 closed without grading) Answers: 4
Local time: 19:19

Selected answer:yes. stop the sale.

Explanation:
You are correct, Shirley. Suspend ticket sales = stop the sale of tickets.

The fact that it says they sold out in record time implies to me that the selling agent was authorized to sell everything except the final 10,000 - which might mean that the organizers reserved a minimum 10,00 tickets for some other special purposes - maybe for public officials or celebrities or for themselves or their business partners, etc.....

I would translate it exactly as the original states.

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Good luck, Shirley!

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jack_speak
Local time: 07:19

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yes. stop the sale.

jack_speak

suspender la venta de boletos

Jose Arnoldo Rodriguez-Carrington

Answers

0 min confidence:

suspender la venta de boletos

Explanation:
just a literal translation

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Sorry, pleas disregard. I did not see it wan't a request for English-Spanish.

Jose Arnoldo Rodriguez-Carrington
Mexico
Local time: 05:19
Native speaker of:

English,

Spanish

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Asker: It doesn't matter,thank you any way.Hope me some day would also learn Spanish to understand your translation.

9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

yes. stop the sale.

jack_speak
Local time: 07:19
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

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Notes to answerer

Asker: BOD is Big Day Out ,a rock music festival in Austrlia

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