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{
"term": "fare",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "b2",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "the money that you pay to travel by bus, plane, taxi, etc.",
"cefr": "b2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "**bus/taxi fares**"
},
{
"text": "**train/rail fares**"
},
{
"text": "Children travel (at) half fare."
},
{
"text": "When do they start paying full fare?"
},
{
"text": "He faces charges of dodging taxi fares."
},
{
"text": "I'm afraid you will have to pay the full fare."
},
{
"text": "Last-minute fares start at $219 each way."
},
{
"text": "Round-trip fares range from $118 to $258."
},
{
"text": "The airline has introduced a cheap fare to New York."
},
{
"text": "The company is promising reductions in fares."
},
{
"text": "The fare will cost you less if you travel midweek."
},
{
"text": "The return fare will cost you less than two single tickets."
},
{
"text": "They caught him trying to dodge bus fares."
},
{
"text": "a simplified fare structure"
},
{
"text": "a special fare deal for air travellers"
},
{
"text": "air fares slashed by a massive 30%"
},
{
"text": "Cheap fares mean using your car is unnecessary."
},
{
"text": "Do you want the standard fare or the first-class fare?"
},
{
"text": "Fare dodgers will be dealt with severely."
},
{
"text": "Fares can be expensive in the city."
},
{
"text": "Fares have been increased by 10%."
},
{
"text": "How much is the return/single fare?"
},
{
"text": "I spend about £40 a week on fares."
},
{
"text": "Pay your fare at the ticket office."
},
{
"text": "Round-trip fare from New York to Cincinnati is $229."
},
{
"text": "The new mayor has promised to reduce fares on all buses and trains."
},
{
"text": "one-way fare"
}
],
"topics": ["Transport by bus and train", "Transport by air", "Money"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["expensive", "high", "cheap"],
"verb + fare": ["pay", "charge", "increase"],
"fare + verb": [
"cost (somebody) something",
"start at something",
"start from something"
],
"fare + noun": ["hike", "increase", "rise"],
"preposition": ["at…fare"],
"phrases": [
"an increase in fares",
"a rise in fares",
"a reduction in fares"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "a passenger in a taxi",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The taxi driver picked up a fare at the station."
}
],
"collocations": {
"verb + fare": ["pick up"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "a range of food of a particular type",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The restaurant provides good traditional fare."
},
{
"text": "tourists seeing the sights and sampling the local Mexican fare"
},
{
"text": "a restaurant serving traditional Scottish fare"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["gourmet", "rich", "plain"],
"verb + fare": ["offer", "serve", "sample"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "something that is offered to the public, especially as a form of entertainment",
"examples": [
{
"text": "This movie is perfect family fare."
},
{
"text": "The band's music was standard rock fare."
},
{
"text": "His student drawings were not standard art school fare."
},
{
"text": "Court trials involving famous people are the daily fare of newspapers."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/feə(r)/",
"audio": "fa/fare/fare__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/fer/",
"audio": "fa/fare/fare__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English fær, faru ‘travelling, a journey or expedition’, faran ‘to travel’, also ‘get on (well or badly’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch varen and German fahren ‘to travel’, Old Norse ferja ‘ferry boat’, also to ford. Senses 1 and 2 of the noun stem from an earlier meaning ‘a journey for which a price is paid’. Noun sense 3 was originally used with reference to the quality or quantity of food provided, probably from the idea of faring well or badly."
}