Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A box in which the tickets or fares of passengers, as in horse-cars, omnibuses, and at some railroad-stations, are deposited by them.
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Examples
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As I said before, the only way to make the numbers look even somewhat acceptable is to make the fare-box go away.
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Take a look at what happens when the fare-box is implimented.
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MR. HUMPHREYS: There is an exact science and much engineering romance behind the small ticket we place in the fare-box of our electric cars and motor buses.
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The fare-box recovery -- in transit, the percent of operating expense actually covered by fare revenue -- something that does 25 percent like a bike-share system is pretty good.
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Without surplus bridge revenue, fare-box collections and operational assistance provided by Marin and Sonoma counties along with the state and the federal government would be insufficient to cover the district's transit operations.
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The rail line is expected to be completed by 2014, and Stone said the cost of the project, operations and maintenance would be paid for by fare-box and advertising revenue and corporate sponsorships.
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Without surplus bridge revenue, fare-box collections and operational assistance provided by Marin and Sonoma counties along with the state and the federal government would be insufficient to cover the district's transit operations.
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The transit agency dropped that service in the summer of last year, because of a sudden drop in both sales tax and fare-box revenue.
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Without surplus bridge revenue, fare-box collections and operational assistance provided by Marin and Sonoma counties along with the state and the federal government would be insufficient to cover the district's transit operations.
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Without surplus bridge revenue, fare-box collections and operational assistance provided by Marin and Sonoma counties along with the state and the federal government would be insufficient to cover the district's transit operations.
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