farenoun
uk/feər/us/fer/fare noun (PAYMENT)
B1 [ C ] the money that you pay for a journey in a vehicle such as a bus or train:
Train fares are going up again.
[ C ] someone who pays to be driven somewhere in a taxi
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- Take some foreign currency to cover incidentals like the taxi fare to your hotel.
- Train fare increases of five percent are envisaged for the next year.
- Please tender the exact fare.
- Government sources estimate a long-term 50 percent increase in rail fares.
- The airline's decision to cut air fares is likely to unsettle the market.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Costs & expenses
- aliment
- alimony
- asking price
- carrying charge
- charge
- compensation
- corkage
- cost an arm and a leg/a small fortune idiom
- cost-of-living index
- damage
- dent
- expense
- flat rate
- indirect cost
- maintenance
- price war
- running costs
- settlement
- stoppage
- worth
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Travellers & visitors
fare noun (FOOD)
[ U ] old-fashioned the type of food that is served in a restaurant
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Food - general words
- aliment
- bed
- carb
- carbohydrate
- chanterelle
- chow
- diabetic
- foodstuff
- fruits of the earth idiom
- greengrocer
- grocer
- grocery
- pap
- ration
- refreshment
- roughage
- serving
- shelf life
- speciality
- tuck
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fareverb [ I usually + adv/prep ]
uk/feər/us/fer/old-fashionedto succeed or be treated in the stated way:
How did you fare in your exams?
Low-paid workers will fare badly/well under this government.
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Coping and not coping
- balancing act
- be left holding the baby idiom
- bear up
- bite
- bite off more than you can chew idiom
- cut
- head
- hold
- keep body and soul together idiom
- keep the wolf from the door idiom
- keep your head above water idiom
- keep/hold your end up idiom
- live (from) hand to mouth idiom
- manage
- roll
- sink or swim idiom
- stride
- subsist
- subsistence
- take sth in your stride idiom
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