{
    "term": "fare",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "the money that you pay to travel by bus, plane, taxi, etc.",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "**bus/taxi fares**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**train/rail fares**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Children travel (at) half fare."
                },
                {
                    "text": "When do they start paying full fare?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He faces charges of dodging taxi fares."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I'm afraid you will have to pay the full fare."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Last-minute fares start at $219 each way."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Round-trip fares range from $118 to $258."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The airline has introduced a cheap fare to New York."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company is promising reductions in fares."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The fare will cost you less if you travel midweek."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The return fare will cost you less than two single tickets."
                },
                {
                    "text": "They caught him trying to dodge bus fares."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a simplified fare structure"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a special fare deal for air travellers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "air fares slashed by a massive 30%"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Cheap fares mean using your car is unnecessary."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Do you want the standard fare or the first-class fare?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fare dodgers will be dealt with severely."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fares can be expensive in the city."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Fares have been increased by 10%."
                },
                {
                    "text": "How much is the return/​single fare?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I spend about £40 a week on fares."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Pay your fare at the ticket office."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Round-trip fare from New York to Cincinnati is $229."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The new mayor has promised to reduce fares on all buses and trains."
                },
                {
                    "text": "one-way fare"
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Transport by bus and train", "Transport by air", "Money"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["expensive", "high", "cheap"],
                "verb + fare": ["pay", "charge", "increase"],
                "fare + verb": [
                    "cost (somebody) something",
                    "start at something",
                    "start from something"
                ],
                "fare + noun": ["hike", "increase", "rise"],
                "preposition": ["at…fare"],
                "phrases": [
                    "an increase in fares",
                    "a rise in fares",
                    "a reduction in fares"
                ]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a passenger in a taxi",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The taxi driver picked up a fare at the station."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verb + fare": ["pick up"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "a range of food of a particular type",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The restaurant provides good traditional fare."
                },
                {
                    "text": "tourists seeing the sights and sampling the local Mexican fare"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a restaurant serving traditional Scottish fare"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["gourmet", "rich", "plain"],
                "verb + fare": ["offer", "serve", "sample"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "something that is offered to the public, especially as a form of entertainment",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "This movie is perfect family fare."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The band's music was standard rock fare."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His student drawings were not standard art school fare."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Court trials involving famous people are the daily fare of newspapers."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/feə(r)/",
                "audio": "fa/fare/fare__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/fer/",
                "audio": "fa/fare/fare__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English fær, faru ‘travelling, a journey or expedition’, faran ‘to travel’, also ‘get on (well or badly’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch varen and German fahren ‘to travel’, Old Norse ferja ‘ferry boat’, also to ford. Senses 1 and 2 of the noun stem from an earlier meaning ‘a journey for which a price is paid’. Noun sense 3 was originally used with reference to the quality or quantity of food provided, probably from the idea of faring well or badly."
}