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airfare

airfare

32 3.2
Money you pay for a plane ticket
  • noun
  • /ˈɛrˌfɛr/
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  • The embassy lent me $500 to pay airfare back to Canada.
  • include airfare

And if they're paying for airfare and hotel, it's way easier to decide.

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Examples

  • Courses may vary, but budgets generally include airfare, lodging, ground transportation, and food/meal costs.

    Academic text (2010)
  • After checking several websites, I decided to book my airfare for the family vacation.

  • All I need is a week and you spot me the airfare to Africa.

  • Maybe we can even split the airfare.

  • I could have saved us the airfare.

  • And it's a whole lot better than return airfare to Hawaii.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • We will, however, not be able to refund your airfare.

  • The prize includes a con membership, airfare, and two nights in a hotel.

    Blog text (13)
  • The money that I do put forth is to cover things like airfare, lodging, food, all that stuff.

  • Budget: around $5000 for the two of us, including airfare from Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

    Blog text (8)

How Expensive

first class
53 3.4
premium
58 5.4
airfare
32 3.2
airplane ticket
  • US
5 1.0

Surface Forms

airfare singular
airfares plural

Morphology

airfare = air + fare (transparent) = air + fare

The meaning is directly the 'fare' for travel by 'air' and is easily inferable by learners from the two component words.

Etymology

The word airfare is simply air + fare. The fare part means 'payment for travel', as in 'bus fare' or 'taxi fare', so airfare is the payment for an 'air' trip.