carfare

English

Etymology

car +‎ fare

Noun

carfare (countable and uncountable, plural carfares)

1. (US) The passenger fare charged for riding on a streetcar or bus.
   • 1971 Woody Allen - Getting Even

     Last year, organized crime was directly responsible for more than one hundred murders, and mafiosi participated indirectly in several hundred more, either by lending the killers carfare or by holding their coats.

   • 2000 Mary Roberts Rinehart - A Poor Wise Man

     Anyhow, I'll have to keep out lunch money and carfare, and so will Edith.

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:carfare.

Synonyms

• busfare (British)

Translations

the passenger fare charged for riding on a streetcar or bus

• Czech: jízdné (cs) n
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• Finnish: bussimaksu (bus); raitiovaunumaksu, ratikkamaksu (street car); ajomaksu (general)