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Definition of Fare-stage

1. Noun. A section along the route of a bus for which the fare is the same.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fare-stage

Literary usage of Fare-stage

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society by Buffalo Historical Society, Albert Bigelow, Buffalo Historical Society (Buffalo, N.Y.) (1902)
"9.25 13. Fare to Albany $8, hair cutting (NY) 25c 8.25 " Schenectady 16 miles $1.50, expences there $1.50 3-Co 14. Fare (stage) to Utica (84 miles) $6, ..."

2. Shall the Government Own and Operate the Railroads, the Telegraph and by National Civic Federation, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks (1915)
"A passenger getting on a car between two fare-stage termini and off between the next two, ... Economical passengers walk to the nearest fare-stage post. ..."

3. Shall the Government Own and Operate the Railroads, the Telegraph and by National Civic Federation, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, David John Lewis, Frederic Clemson Howe, Carl Dean Thompson (1915)
"A passenger getting on a car between two fare-stage termini and off between the next two, ... Economical passengers walk to the nearest fare-stage post. ..."

4. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"People have a tendency to save their halfpence, even by getting out at a point short of their real destination to save passing into another fare stage, ..."

5. Transactions of the International Engineering Congress, 1915 (1916)
"People have a tendency to save their halfpence, even by getting out at a point short of their real destination to save passing into another fare stage, ..."

6. The British City: The Beginnings of Democracy by Howe, Frederic Clemson (1907)
"Some of the cities have adopted a one cent fare stage. In Glasgow, 29.9 of the passengers paid but one cent in 1905. The percentage of one cent fares on the ..."

7. The Play Movement in the United States: A Study of Community Recreation by Clarence Elmer Rainwater (1922)
"... fare" stage and the succeeding ones, as well, and distinguishes them from the preceding four. The presence of this change became marked with the ..."

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