carfare

English

car +‎ fare

carfare (countable and uncountable, plural carfares)

(US) The passenger fare charged for riding on a streetcar or bus.
- 1971 Woody Allen - Getting Even
  Last year, organized crime was directly responsible for more than one hundred murders, and mafiosi participated indirectly in several hundred more, either by lending the killers carfare or by holding their coats.
- 2000 Mary Roberts Rinehart - A Poor Wise Man
  Anyhow, I'll have to keep out lunch money and carfare, and so will Edith.

the passenger fare charged for riding on a streetcar or bus

Finnish: bussimaksu (bus); raitiovaunumaksu, ratikkamaksu (street car); ajomaksu (general)

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