farebox
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A box into which passengers drop their bus or train fare.
noun
All payment from passengers (in whatever form) as a source of revenue for a transit organization.
Example Sentences
- "We are keeping our eye on contradictions in fare collection–members have noticed uniformed collectors on Nearly light rail at the same time buses run with papered-over fareboxes–given the recent fare increase, we wonder why collections does not seem to be uniformly enforced."
- "What makes it worse is that since the Southern Thameslink and Great Northern deal is a management contract, all the farebox money goes to the government."