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fare-dodger

fare-dodger is the alternative form of fare dodger.

Meaning of fare dodger

Noun

fare dodger (plural fare dodgers)

  1. A person who deliberately avoids payment for public transport.
    • Police officers and prosecutors were forced to spend sizeable proportions of their capacity on arresting and prosecuting faredodgers.1995, Changes in Society, Crime and Criminal Justice in Europe

Forms of fare-dodger

pluralfare-dodgers

Questions about fare-dodger

What is fare-dodger the alternative form of?
Fare-dodger is the alternative form of fare dodger.

Words near fare-dodger in the dictionary

  1. fare evasion
  2. fare ladder
  3. fare ladders
  4. fare thee well
  5. fare thee wells
  6. fare-dodger
  7. fare-dodgers
  8. fare-dodging
  9. fare-paying
  10. fare-thee-well
  11. farebeater

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fare-dodger (page history and authors); fare dodger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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