The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 4 letter word FARE
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More clues leading to the result FARE
- Reasonable-sounding food
- Food so-so, from what’s said
- Charge for accessing remote estates, primarily
- Distant European traveller
- Food just on the tongue
- Food pleasing to the eye, we're told
- What travellers pay for food
- Get on European service to return
- Conveying charge from governing body, with rule essentially being ignored
- 100 leave play to get food
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What does FARE mean?
FARE noun- A going; journey; travel; voyage; course; passage.
- Money paid for a transport ticket.
- A paying passenger, especially in a taxi.
- Food and drink.
- Supplies for consumption or pleasure.
- A prostitute's client.
- To go, travel.
- To get along, succeed (well or badly); to be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events.
- To eat, dine.
- To happen well, or ill.
- To move along; proceed; progress; advance