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carfares

carfares is the plural of carfare.

Meaning of carfare

Noun

carfare (countable and uncountable, plural carfares)

  1. (US, dated) The passenger fare charged for riding on a streetcar, bus or similar public transit.
    • 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.1971, Woody Allen, Getting Even

Questions about carfares

What is carfares the plural of?
Carfares is the plural of carfare.

Words near carfares in the dictionary

  1. Carfagno
  2. Carfagnos
  3. Carfano
  4. Carfanos
  5. carfare
  6. carfares
  7. carfax
  8. carfaxes
  9. carfecillin
  10. carfenazine
  11. carfentanil

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