Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An instrument installed in a taxicab to measure distance traveled and waiting time and to compute and indicate the fare.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A commercial name of an instrument for automatically recording and mechanically computing the tax or charge to be made for the use of a hired vehicle in accordance with a determined tariff for such charges.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a meter in a taxi that registers the fare (based on the length of the ride).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
device installed in ataxicab thatcalculates thefare based upondistance travelled andwaiting time .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a meter in a taxi that registers the fare (based on the length of the ride)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While the older compound word taximeter yielded the shorter taxi in English, that shorter word took a shortcut of its own in China.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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While the older compound word taximeter yielded the shorter taxi in English, that shorter word took a shortcut of its own in China.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Ok so if the taximeter says 20$ but the meter says 40, what are you going to do…argue with a foreign cab driver that youre taximeter which is only 85% accurate is showing a different price?
Don’t get ripped off by a taxi driver again | Sync Blog 2008
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The words of the man at the Astor, and still more the episodes of the family friend from Missouri and the taximeter cab, had shown him that this thing was on a different plane from anything that had happened to him before.
Kindle-licious on Wodehouse’s Psmith: Reality Bites | Spontaneous ∂erivation 2008
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The words of the man at the Astor, and still more the episodes of the family friend from Missouri and the taximeter cab, had shown him that this thing was on a different plane from anything that had happened to him before.
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In your capacity as London mayor-elect why don't you invite him along to No 18 for a quiet chat/debate on all this your sofas - along with a couple of London's finest taximeter cabriolet drivers?
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For example, the taximeter used by the Greeks to measure the distance travelled by the wheels of a carriage employed only pairs of gears or gears and worms to achieve the necessary ratio of movement.
Archive 2005-10-01 Zoe Brain 2005
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For example, the taximeter used by the Greeks to measure the distance travelled by the wheels of a carriage employed only pairs of gears or gears and worms to achieve the necessary ratio of movement.
Computer Greeks Zoe Brain 2005
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In the case of this defence of the Christian conviction I confess that I would as soon begin the argument with one thing as another; I would begin it with a turnip or a taximeter cab.
Orthodoxy 1874-1936 1990
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Shirley scrutinized the interior of the machine, but there seemed nothing to distinguish it from the thousands of other piratical craft which pillage the public with the aid of the taximeter clock on the port beam!
The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball
hernesheir commented on the word taximeter
The nemesis of one's allotted weekend spending money?
December 2, 2010