(n.) 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.
(n.) To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
(n.) To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
(n.) To behave; to conduct one's self.
(v.) A journey; a passage.
(v.) 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.
(v.) Ado; bustle; business.
(v.) Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
(v.) Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
(v.) The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
(v.) The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
Example Sentences:
(1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
(2) The female survival figures were better than the male, and older patients fared far worse then younger ones.
(3) One problem is that it seems fares are going up several times a year.
(4) Yet it appears that younger patients fared better than older ones.
(5) Mary Creagh, the shadow transport secretary, said: "Over the last three years David Cameron has failed to stand up for working people, allowing train companies to hit passengers with inflation-busting fare rises of up to 9%.
(6) We’re meant to get into a choreographed huff about train fares.
(7) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
(8) But many customers have been impressed by the speed of the technology and cheapness of the fares, and the company’s valuation continues to rise.
(9) Those patients who were treated seemed to fare better than those not treated.
(10) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
(11) Anthony Smith, Passenger Focus chief executive, said: "These fare increases were being sought by a company that was in a very different financial position.
(12) This week, East Midlands Trains more than doubled the cost of some peak-time trains to London, arguing those fares were too cheap.
(13) A survey of radiologic technologists in North Carolina shows that, in general, technologists fare better economically when working in hospitals than in radiologists' offices.
(14) The patients on active drug fared no better than those on placebo.
(15) Buy carnet tickets Carnets were introduced by First Capital Connect to offer slightly lower fares to those who travel into London two or three times a week, but not enough to make it cost-effective to buy a season ticket.
(16) For those making an early getaway, air fares were up by 7% and boat journeys went up 5.2%.
(17) Val Shawcross, Labour's transport spokeswoman on the London assembly, said the anticipated loss of revenue almost matched the £60m the mayor, who chairs Transport for London, had raised by increasing bus fares in the capital.
(18) In Spain the government is taking the drastic step of cutting speed limits on motorways and cutting train fares , as the unrest in Libya threatens the country's oil supplies.
(19) Gene frequencies were compared with previous data and all European populations studied so fare agreed with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
(20) He says he missed the appointment because he did not have enough money for the bus fare.
Tax
Definition:
(n.) A charge, especially a pecuniary burden which is imposed by authority.
(n.) A charge or burden laid upon persons or property for the support of a government.
(n.) Especially, the sum laid upon specific things, as upon polls, lands, houses, income, etc.; as, a land tax; a window tax; a tax on carriages, and the like.
(n.) A sum imposed or levied upon the members of a society to defray its expenses.
(n.) A task exacted from one who is under control; a contribution or service, the rendering of which is imposed upon a subject.
(n.) A disagreeable or burdensome duty or charge; as, a heavy tax on time or health.
(n.) Charge; censure.
(n.) A lesson to be learned; a task.
(n.) To subject to the payment of a tax or taxes; to impose a tax upon; to lay a burden upon; especially, to exact money from for the support of government.
(n.) To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.
(n.) To charge; to accuse; also, to censure; -- often followed by with, rarely by of before an indirect object; as, to tax a man with pride.
Example Sentences:
(1) Virtually every developed country has some form of property tax, so the idea that valuing residential property is uniquely difficult, or that it would be widely evaded, is nonsense.
(2) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(3) Paradoxically, each tax holiday increases the need for the next, because companies start holding ever greater amounts of their tax offshore in the expectation that the next Republican government will announce a new one.
(4) But the wounding charge in 2010 has become Brown's creation of a structural hole in the budget, more serious than the cyclical hit which the recession made in tax receipts, at least 4% of GDP.
(5) We want to be sure that the country that’s providing all the infrastructure and support to the business is the one that reaps the reward by being able to collect the tax,” he said.
(6) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(7) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
(8) Writing in the Observer , Schmidt said his company's accounts were complicated but complied with international taxation treaties that allowed it to pay most of its tax in the United States.
(9) "There is a serious risk that a deal will be agreed between rich countries and tax havens that would leave poor countries out in the cold.
(10) Photograph: Guardian The research also compiled data covered by a wider definition of tax haven, including onshore jurisdictions such as the US state of Delaware – accused by the Cayman islands of playing "faster and looser" even than offshore jurisdictions – and the Republic of Ireland, which has come under sustained pressure from other EU states to reform its own low-tax, light-tough, regulatory environment.
(11) Cameron also used the speech to lambast one of the central announcements in the budget - raising the top rate of tax for people earning more than £150,000 to 50p from next year.
(12) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(13) The issue has been raised by an accountant investigating the tax affairs of the duchy – an agricultural, commercial and residential landowner.
(14) Proposals to increase the tax on high-earning "non-domiciled" residents in Britain were watered down today, after intense lobbying from the business community.
(15) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(16) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(17) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
(18) Initial analysis suggests that about one-fifth of gross costs would be directly returned to the public purse via income tax and national insurance payments.
(19) Gordon Brown believes that the fact of the G20 summit has persuaded many tax havens, such as Switzerland and Liechtenstein, to indicate that they will adopt a more open approach.
(20) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.