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- noun Plural form of
carfare .
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Examples
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Undaunted by the challenge, Szold called on each Hadassah woman throughout the country to save on carfares and contribute fifteen cents in support of the project.
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He saved his carfares and went without lunch until he had enough money to buy an encyclopedia of American biography—and then he did an unheard-of thing.
How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie 1981
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His always modest luncheon reduced itself to a sandwich, he walked to save carfares, cut off two Sunday newspapers, wore a threadbare spring overcoat into the winter.
The Collectors Frank Jewett Mather
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There came into the treasury $1.00 'saved on carfares';
Russell H. Conwell Agnes Rush Burr
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Felicia hadn't two carfares and she had forgotten to ask the dentist for money.
Little Miss By-The-Day Lucille Van Slyke
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I have paid four hundred dollars, and Edith has been kind and generous enough to contribute four hundred dollars more, to keep you in carfares, young lady.
The Fifth Wheel A Novel Olive Higgins Prouty 1928
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Lots and lots of the working-women of Endbury live with their families in two or three rooms right on that horrid Main Street near their work because they can't afford _carfares_! "
The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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"Why, pretty soon wages'd be cut faster than they was when street carfares went down from ten cents to five.
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"Why, pretty soon wages'd be cut faster than they was when street carfares went down from ten cents to five.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 1889
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