(of a passenger) paying a fare for a journey, especially on public transport.
the first tilting train carrying fare-paying passengers has travelled to Manchester
Example sentencesExamples
- Its first fare-paying operation (£1 adults, 50p children) will run in August and September.
- In 1933 his new airline began fare-paying operations from Inverness to Kirkwall with a small three-passenger aircraft.
- New family tariffs mean a fare-paying group of three adults and car can take an additional four children or two adults free.
- The Magistrate found that that this person had an honest intention to pay a fare and was an honest fare-paying citizen.
- The restored engine is to due to make her first fare-paying journey on 11 May, hauling an enthusiasts' special from Preston to Carlisle.
- Bromley Council opposes major development of the site and introducing fare-paying passenger flights.
- How many times have any of us watched the bus pass by with only a handful of fare-paying customers?
- As the urban tales about how to beat the system inevitably rise, so will the angst of the fare-paying public, who may be looking at a $1.70 subway ride come January.
- If there are insufficient spare seats available for all fare-paying students wishing to travel, give priority to students already travelling on the bus.
- That is when the battle of words ensued between the steering-wheel minder and the fare-paying members of the bus.