train fare
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- noun
- /treɪn fɛr/
:
tarifa de tren
- I don't have money for train fare.
- train fare dollars
- train fare home
Examples
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I've also had to call in sick because I didn't have enough money to get to work (figure $5 in gas, $12 in train fare, etc.; it gets expensive).
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Lower the train fare to the same as the bus fare, and you will see a shift from the REX buses to the Sounder trains since the travel time to Seattle is about the same.
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You haven't got the train fare.
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She spends almost a hundred dollars a month just on train fare.
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He was unable to afford the train fare from Ohio, where he attended medical school.
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Train fare was $18.65.
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She spends almost a hundred dollars a month just on train fare.
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The round-trip train fare is $29 or $14.50 per person for groups of two or more.
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By Sunday night, he had just enough money left for train fare back to his apartment.
Synonyms
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Money paid to travel on a bus, train, or taxi
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from the constituents: 'train' (a railway vehicle) and 'fare' (the price charged for travel), so the compound simply specifies the type of fare. This is a straightforward compositional pattern common across languages and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows both words.
Etymology
Train fare pairs train with fare, an old word for the price of a 'journey'. Long ago people paid a 'fare' to be carried from one place to another, so train fare simply means the 'money' you pay for a trip on a train.