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pay trains

pay trains is the plural of pay train.

Meaning of pay train

Noun

pay train (plural pay trains)

  1. (historical) A train carrying people’s wages.
  2. A train for which tickets are bought on board rather than at the station beforehand.
    • Besides, is not the pay-train from Leeds disgorging a clutch of poets every lunch time, to read authentic texts aloud?1977, Angela Carter, “The Paris of the North”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 216

Questions about pay trains

What is pay trains the plural of?
Pay trains is the plural of pay train.

Words near pay trains in the dictionary

  1. pay to win
  2. pay toilet
  3. pay toilets
  4. pay towards
  5. pay train
  6. pay trains
  7. pay TV
  8. pay up
  9. pay what you want
  10. pay with one's life
  11. pay-and-display

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