Fare \Fare\ (f[^a]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fared}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Faring}.] [AS. faran to travel, fare; akin to OS., Goth., & OHG. faran to travel, go, D. varen, G. fahren, OFries., Icel., & Sw. fara, Dan. fare, Gr. ????? a way through, ??????? a ferry, strait, ???????? to convey, ?????????? to go, march, ????? beyond, on the other side, ????? to pass through, L. peritus experienced, portus port, Skr. par to bring over. [root]78. Cf. {Chaffer}, {Emporium}, {Far}, {Ferry}, {Ford}, {Peril}, {Port} a harbor, {Pore}, n.] 1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden. --Milton.
2. To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
So fares the stag among the enraged hounds. --Denham.
I bid you most heartily well to fare. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
So fared the knight between two foes. --Hudibras.
3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
There was a certain rich man which . . . fared sumptuously every day. --Luke xvi. 19.
4. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
So fares it when with truth falsehood contends. --Milton.
5. To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.]
She ferde [fared] as she would die. --Chaucer.
Fare \Fare\, n. [AS. faru journey, fr. faran. See {Fare}, v.] 1. A journey; a passage. [Obs.]
That nought might stay his fare. --Spenser.
2. The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
3. Ado; bustle; business. [Obs.]
The warder chid and made fare. --Chaucer.
4. Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
What fare? what news abroad ? --Shak.
5. Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. ``Philosophic fare.'' --Dryden.
6. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers. --A. Drummond.
7. The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
{Bill of fare}. See under {Bill}.
{Fare indicator} or { Fare register}, a device for recording the number of passengers on a street car, etc.
{Fare wicket}. (a) A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it. (b) An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing fares to the conductor. --Knight.
American is hoping that this two-for-one promotion will attract business travelers in much the same way the European fare cuts it initiated last week are expected to fill leisure-class seats.
He said the Bloomfield factory each week makes about 30,000 of the small flags that have lately become common fare at patriotic celebrations.
The restaurants had been serving such fare as baby spring chicken and chocolate decadence cake since the council stopped a city food service that had cost $4,600 per year.
Some analysts are skeptical that Texas Air will keep the MaxSaver fare in its current form because its relatively lenient two-day advance purchase requirement makes it available to almost everybody except businessmen traveling on short notice.
A passenger flying roundtrip between Baltimore and Los Angeles at full fare could have to pay up to $1,246 on a heavily booked flight to guarantee a seat for an infant.
He hopes the fare wars won't last past the spring.
Federal bank regulators, concerned about the growing volume of leveraged-buy-out debt, have cautioned banks to consider how such loans would fare during a recession or in periods of high inflation.
They paid the agency $1,000 in registration and placement fees, and advanced the woman's $224 air fare.
Officials of the Machinists union, the lone union still striking against Eastern, said Eastern's planes are flying at less than half capacity, despite the carrier's sharp fare discounting in hopes of luring back passengers.
The idea is to offer more nutritious fare with less cholesterol and salt.
But its new Cutlass Supreme is just coming out, so it's too early to tell how that model will fare and how it will affect the division.
Eventually, holders of free tickets displaced genuine fare payers, hastening Pan Am's descent into bankruptcy. BA, which started its scheme in 1988, says this cannot happen today.
To date the 66,000 employees of the airlines whose jobs have been saved by Texas Air and the public who have saved billions in air fare on Continental have been principal beneficiaries of Texas Air's investment in its subsidiaries.
First, most airlines announced fare increases of more than 5 percent to defray unexpected increases in jet fuel prices caused by the crisis in the oil-rich Persian Gulf.
The North American market is particularly poor, with fare wars pushing many carriers into the red and forcing them to cancel aircraft orders. That has hit Boeing in its home market.
Despite huge profits which I could have made from investing in emerging markets such as Indonesia, Pakistan and Malaysia, I ignored them completely in 1993 in favour of rather more predictable fare.
Such programs, however, account for only a fraction of the total broadcasting fare, rendering Mitsubishi's "auto-cut" capability useless for much of the day's programming.
Southwest Airlines said it reduced its senior citizens fare on many of its short-haul routes to $15 one-way from $25 in an effort to stimulate more travel on those routes.
The fare level is widely used by business travelers and last-minute vacationers, because it usually doesn't require any advance purchase or a round trip, and it is fully refundable if the ticket is changed or canceled.
Blowing his nose, he adds, "Next year, I'll be playing in Portugal." Not surprisingly, Icelanders fare better.
The actor also was a familiar face to television viewers, starring in TV versions of his Shakespearean plays on "The Hallmark Hall of Fame" and in such lighter fare as "Batman," "Tarzan," "Bewitched" and "Daniel Boone" in the 1960s.
Other agencies are waiting to see how their competitors fare before making any moves of their own.
That leaves Continental Airlines, the designer of the planned fare rise, as the only airline backing the move. Continental, which is operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy-law protection, is a unit of Continental Airlines Holdings Inc.
It's unclear how Holiday management will fare.
Similarly, a Houston-Chicago round-trip fare will cost $160 compared with $98 four weeks ago.
To fill gaps, Jackson authorized taxicabs to pick up multiple fares, allowed 1,000 suburban line buses to extend their routes into the city and charge 16 cents a ride _ four times the usual fare.
The change could make it harder for business travelers to use the fare, as they often purchase their tickets at the airport.
Bruce Nobles, president of Trump Shuttle Inc., liked the bargain fare. "It was a smart idea in this circumstance," Nobles said from his New York office.
And it will be priced well below the fancier Mexican fare that many Manhattan restaurants already offer.
The most frequent trick is to clear the meter when you reach your destination and ask for a higher fare.