fare
[noun]
Synonyms:
- charge, price, ticket money
- food, provisions, rations, sustenance, victuals
[verb]
Synonyms:
- get on, do, get along, make out, manage, prosper

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Contrasted words: stay, stop
Related Idioms: make headway
Related Words: advance, progress

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English Thesaurus: cost, price, value, charge, fee, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

I. fare¹ /feə $ fer/ noun
[Language: Old English; Origin: faru 'journey']

1. [countable] the price you pay to travel somewhere by bus, train, plane etc
bus/train/air/cab fare
Air fares have shot up by 20%.
half-fare/full-fare
Children under 14 travel half-fare.

2. [uncountable] written food, especially food served in a restaurant or eaten on a special occasion:
traditional Christmas fare

3. [countable] a passenger in a taxi

4. [uncountable] something that is offered to the public, especially as entertainment:
The movie is suitable family fare.

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II. fare² verb
fare well/badly/better etc to be successful, unsuccessful etc:
Although Chicago has fared better than some cities, unemployment remains a problem.
He wondered how Ed had fared in the interview.

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

fare
noun
I. money paid to travel by bus, taxi, etc.
ADJ. expensive, high | cheap, low | adult, full, normal, standard | children's, concessionary, discounted, half, reduced | return, single | first-class, second-class | air, bus, cab, coach, ferry, rail, taxi, train
VERB + FARE pay I'm afraid you will have to pay the full fare.
charge Buses charged a standard fare of about 20 pence per mile.
increase, put up | bring down, cut, reduce, slash air fares slashed by a massive 30%
introduce, offer The airline has introduced a cheap return fare to New York.
dodge He faces charges of dodging taxi fares.
FARE + VERB cost (sb) sth The return fare will cost you less than two single tickets.
go up, increase, rise | come down
FARE + NOUN increase, rise | reduction | deal a special fare deal for air travellers
PREP. at... ~ Children travel at half fare.
PHRASES an increase/a rise in fares, a reduction in fares The company is promising reductions in fares.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

fare
II. passenger in a taxi
VERB + FARE pick up The taxi driver picked up a fare outside the opera house.

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fare
III. food; material for listening to, reading, etc.
ADJ. delicious, rich, wholesome | plain, rough, simple | daily, standard, staple, traditional, typical Court trials involving famous people are the daily fare of newspapers. The band's music was standard rock fare.
local | vegetarian | Chinese, English, French, etc. | Christmas, farmhouse
VERB + FARE offer, serve a restaurant serving traditional Scottish fare
sample tourists seeing the sights and sampling the local Spanish fare

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fare
verb
ADV. badly, well She should fare better in this competition. He fared well against his main rival.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

cost the amount of money you need to buy or do something. Cost is usually used when talking in a general way about whether something is expensive or cheap rather than when talking about exact prices:
The cost of running a car is increasing.
the cost of raw materials
price the amount of money you must pay for something that is for sale:
They sell good-quality clothes at reasonable prices.
the price of a plane ticket to New York
value the amount of money that something is worth:
A new kitchen can increase the value of your home.
charge the amount that you have to pay for a service or to use something:
Hotel guests may use the gym for a small charge.
bank charges
fee the amount you have to pay to enter a place or join a group, or for the services of a professional person such as a lawyer or a doctor:
There is no entrance fee.
The membership fee is £125 a year.
legal fees
fare the amount you have to pay to travel somewhere by bus, plane, train etc:
I didn’t even have enough money for my bus fare.
fare increases
rent the amount you have to pay to live in or use a place that you do not own:
The rent on his apartment is $800 a month.
rate a charge that is set according to a standard scale:
Most TV stations offer special rates to local advertisers.
toll the amount you have to pay to travel on some roads or bridges:
You have to pay tolls on many French motorways.
cost a lot
Their hair products are really good but they cost a lot.
not cost much
Second hand clothes don’t cost much.
cost something per minute/hour/year etc
Calls cost only 2p per minute.
cost something per person
There’s a one-day course that costs £80 per person.
cost something per head (=per person)
The meal will cost about £20 per head.
not cost (somebody) a penny (=cost nothing)
Using the Internet, you can make phone calls that don’t cost a penny.
cost a fortune/cost the earth (=have a very high price)
If you use a lawyer, it will cost you a fortune.
cost a bomb/a packet British English (=have a very high price)
He has a new sports car that must have cost a bomb.
cost an arm and a leg (=have a price that is much too high)
A skiing holiday needn’t cost you an arm and a leg.
be especially spoken to cost a particular amount of money:
These shoes were only £5.
be priced at something to have a particular price – used when giving the exact price that a shop or company charges for something:
Tickets are priced at $20 for adults and $10 for kids.
retail at something to be sold in shops at a particular price – used especially in business:
The scissors retail at £1.99 in department stores.
sell/go for something used for saying what people usually pay for something:
Houses in this area sell for around £200,000.
fetch used for saying what people pay for something, especially at a public sale:
The painting fetched over $8,000 at auction.
A sports car built for Mussolini is expected to fetch nearly £1 million at auction.
set somebody back something informal to cost someone a lot of money:
A good set of speakers will set you back around £150.
come to if a bill comes to a particular amount, it adds up to that amount:
The bill came to £100 between four of us.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

food noun [uncountable and countable] things that people and animals eat:
You can buy good fresh food in the market.
Do you like Japanese food?
dish noun [countable] a type of food that is cooked in a particular way:
a traditional English dish
They also offer vegetarian dishes.
speciality British English, specialty American English noun [countable] a type of food that a restaurant or place is famous for:
Fish dishes are a specialty of the region.
Home made pies are one of the hotel’s specialities.
delicacy noun [countable] an unusual food which people in a particular place like to eat:
The local delicacies include laverbread (boiled seaweed).
I was keen to try out the local delicacies.
diet noun [countable] the type of food that someone usually eats:
You shouldn’t have too much salt in your diet.
In the Andes, the main diet is beans, potatoes, and corn.
cooking noun [uncountable] food made in a particular way, or by a particular person:
Herbs are used a lot in French cooking.
I love my Mum’s home cooking.
cuisine /kwɪˈziːn/ noun [countable] formal the food you can eat in a particular restaurant, country, or area:
Italian cuisine
Trying the local cuisine is all part of the fun of travelling.
nutrition noun [uncountable] food considered as something that is necessary for good health and growth:
a book on nutrition
Many homeless people suffer from poor nutrition.
nourishment /ˈnʌrɪʃmənt $ ˈnɜː-, ˈnʌ-/ noun [uncountable] goodness that you get from food, which helps your body to stay healthy:
There's not much nourishment in fast food.
fare noun [uncountable] formal the kind of food that is served in a place – used especially when saying how interesting it is:
In China you can feast on bird’s nest soup and other exotic fare.
Dinner was pretty standard fare (=the usual kind of food).
fast food food such as hamburgers, which is prepared quickly and which you can take away with you to eat:
He ballooned to 300lbs on a diet of fast food.
junk food food that is full of sugar or fat, and is bad for your health:
I used to eat loads of junk food.
GM food British English food made from vegetables and animals that have had their genetic structure changed:
There has been a lot of research into the safety of GM food.
organic food food that is produced without using harmful chemicals:
Shoppers are willing to pay more for organic food.
health food food that is thought to be good for your health:
You can buy the ingredients in any good health food shop.
superfood a type of food that is believed to be good for your health because it contains a lot of a particular type of vitamin, mineral etc:
Superfoods such as blueberries are often promoted as having magic health-giving properties.
vegetarian food food that does not contain meat:
The restaurant specializes in vegetarian food.
processed food food that has chemicals in it to make it last a long time:
The colourings and flavourings in processed food are chemicals produced in factories.
canned food (also tinned food British English) food that is sold in cans:
We had to live on canned food for a week.
Tinned food was sent as emergency aid.
frozen food food that is kept at a very low temperature to make it last a long time:
Some people claim that frozen food is just as healthy as fresh food.
convenience food food that is sold in cans, packages etc, so that it can be prepared quickly and easily:
I found that I had more time to cook, instead of just heating up convenience food.
baby food special food for babies:
The soup was horrible – it tasted like baby food.
pet/dog/cat/bird etc food food for animals that you keep as pets:
She spent a fortune on pet food.

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲

rent to pay money to use a house, room, vehicle, piece of equipment, area of land etc:
He rented a room in a house on the Old Kent Road.
They flew out to New York and rented a car at the airport.
hire British English to pay money to use a car or a piece of clothing or equipment for a short period of time:
Why don't we hire a van for the day?
You can hire suits for weddings.
lease to have a legal agreement under which you pay money to a person or company in order to use a building, area of land, vehicle, piece of equipment etc for a fixed period of time :
They leased the offices from an American company.
The car is leased from BMW.
rent/rent something out to allow someone to use a house, room, vehicle, piece of equpiment, area of land etc in return for money:
She rents the flat out to students.
let/let something out to allow someone to use a room, house, building etc in return for money:
Some people don't want to let rooms to foreigners.
They let the house out while they were on holiday.
lease/lease something out to make a legal agreement which allows a person or company to use something that you own for a fixed period of time:
Santa Clara ' s Redevelopment Agency leased the existing city golf course to developers.
high
Rents in the city centre are very high.
low
Our workers get low rents and other advantages.
exorbitant (=extremely high)
Some landlords charge exorbitant rents.
fixed
The rent is fixed for three years.
affordable (=which people can easily pay)
The government plans to provide more homes at affordable rents.
the annual/monthly/weekly rent
Our annual rent is just over $15000.
ground rent British English (=rent paid to the owner of the land that a house, office etc is built on)
There is an additional ground rent of £30 per month.
a peppercorn rent British English (=an extremely low rent)
The colonel let us have the cottage for a peppercorn rent.
back rent (=rent you owe for an earlier period)
Mrs Carr said she is still owed several thousand dollars in back rent.
the rent is due (=it must be paid at a particular time)
The rent is due at the beginning of the week.
pay the rent
She couldn’t afford to pay the rent.
increase/raise the rent (also put up the rent British English)
The landlord wants to put up the rent.
fall behind with the rent/get behind on the rent (=fail to pay your rent on time)
You could be evicted if you fall behind with the rent.
collect the rent
His job is to collect the rents from the tenants.
the rent increases/goes up
The rent has gone up by over 50% in the last two years.
a rent increase
How can they justify such big rent increases?
rent arrears British English (=money that you owe because you have not paid your rent)
The most common debts were rent arrears.
a rent book British English (=a book that shows the payments you have made in rent)
cost the amount of money you need to buy or do something. Cost is usually used when talking in a general way about whether something is expensive or cheap rather than when talking about exact prices:
The cost of running a car is increasing.
the cost of raw materials
price the amount of money you must pay for something that is for sale:
They sell good-quality clothes at reasonable prices.
the price of a plane ticket to New York
value the amount of money that something is worth:
A new kitchen can increase the value of your home.
charge the amount that you have to pay for a service or to use something:
Hotel guests may use the gym for a small charge.
bank charges
fee the amount you have to pay to enter a place or join a group, or for the services of a professional person such as a lawyer or a doctor:
There is no entrance fee.
The membership fee is £125 a year.
legal fees
fare the amount you have to pay to travel somewhere by bus, plane, train etc:
I didn’t even have enough money for my bus fare.
fare increases
rate a charge that is set according to a standard scale:
Most TV stations offer special rates to local advertisers.
toll the amount you have to pay to travel on some roads or bridges:
You have to pay tolls on many French motorways.

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