farebox
noun
farebox is a noun meaning “A box into which passengers drop their bus or train fare” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-R-E-B-O-X, and it appears about once in every 50 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of farebox is fareboxes.
What does farebox mean?
noun
- 1
A box into which passengers drop their bus or train fare.
- 2
All payment from passengers (in whatever form) as a source of revenue for a transit organization.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of farebox
- fareboxes plural
- fare box
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is farebox?
Farebox appears about once in every 50 million words in written English, the 220,118th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does farebox come from?
From fare + box.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).