fare increase

1. 1.

   increase in the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance

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Questions about fare increase

What does fare increase mean?

fare increase means "increase in the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance".

Is fare increase a common word?

fare increase is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.