ˈpassage-ˌmoney
Money charged for passage; fare; † a payment for permission to pass.
| 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Fletar, to pay passage money. 1686 tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 347 Those Thorow-fairs are a sort of Places for the skinning of strangers... They must alway there pay Passage-money. 1833 Chambers's Edin. Jrnl. 25 May 140/3 Hereabout the captain collects the passage-money. 1842 Dickens Amer. Notes xvi, Others had sold their clothes to raise the passage-money. 1889 F. D. Lugard Diary 31 Dec. (1959) I. i. 60 Rs. 300 is I think very moderate. He asks no passage money &c. and speaks the language. 1966 Times (Australia Suppl.) 28 Mar. p. xv/1, I am not talking about cultural encouragement, only passage money. |