Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A taxicab.
- intransitive verb To be transported by taxi.
- intransitive verb To move slowly on the ground or on the surface of the water before takeoff or after landing.
- intransitive verb To transport by or as if by taxi.
- intransitive verb To cause (an aircraft) to taxi.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun same as
taxicab . - noun any vehicle that carries passengers for a fare, as a water
taxi .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
vehicle that may behired for singlejourneys by members of the public, driven by ataxi driver . - noun South Africa A
share taxi . - verb To move an
aircraft around anairport under its own power.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb ride in a taxicab
- noun a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- verb travel slowly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Also taking a taxi is an option is you are gettingback late but they tend to be more expensive.
Five Ways To Save Money On UK Travel | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Maybe the taxi is a good idea, even though I will probably get stopped.
Has anyone crossed into Mexico in a taxi? Any customs problems? 2008
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Know you need to use what they call taxi cab to get yourself to where you need to go.
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We would never try this in Ajijic as shopping by taxi is expensive and impractical at Lakeside.
Charging for parking 2009
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We would never try this in Ajijic as shopping by taxi is expensive and impractical at Lakeside.
Charging for parking 2009
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To get to our Saturday lunchtime sessions, we have to rush back from judo and shove down a sandwich while I call a taxi and pray it will come at a reasonable time.
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We rented a lovely holiday home about 10 mins by car or taxi from the centre of Aix, from vrbo. com.
Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day 2010
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Alternatively, you could take any bus to Nogales, Sonora, catch a taxi from the bus station to the border, walk across, and then catch one of the frequent shuttle vans running from Nogales, Arizona, to Phoenix.
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The scene where the borrowed car has locked bumpers with the taxi is hilarious – the taxi driver, played by J.B. Smoove reminded me a lot of the Chris Tucker character in The Fifth Element.
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Heyzanie's World thinks that driving a taxi is not an inferior job even for someone who has a PhD from Stanford
Global Voices in English » Singapore: Taxi driver-blogger is a PhD graduate 2009
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