- (also cab, taxicab)a car with a driver that you pay to take you somewhere. Taxis usually have meters that show how much money you have to pay.
- We took a taxi to the airport.
- to call/hail/catch/get a taxi
- by taxi I came home by taxi.
- a taxi driver
- a taxi ride/service
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorrya1- We'd better take a taxi.
- I'll get my secretary to call you a taxi.
- We had some difficulty finding a taxi.
- We hired a taxi for the day and went all over the island.
- a five-minute trip by taxi
- a water taxi heading for Venice
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- air
- water
- take
- book (somebody)
- call (somebody)
- …
- cab
- company
- firm
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- by taxi
- (in some places in Africa) a small bus with a driver that you pay to take you somewhere. Taxis usually have fixed routes and stop wherever passengers need to get on or off. see also daladala, matatu
Word Originearly 20th cent.: abbreviation of taxi-cab or taximeter cab, from French taximètre, from taxe ‘tariff’, from the verb taxer ‘to tax’ + -mètre ‘(instrument) measuring’.
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