taxi
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
taxi/ˈtaksi/
▶noun (pl. taxis) a motor vehicle licensed to transport passengers in return for payment of a fare. ▶verb (taxis, taxiing, taxied)
- 1 (with reference to an aircraft) move slowly along the ground before take-off or after landing.
- 2 travel in a taxi.
– origin early 20th cent.: abbrev. of taxicab or taximeter cab.
'taxi' also found in these Oxford entries:
cab
- cabby
- fare
- hack
- hackney carriage
- hail
- minicab
- pedicab
- rank
- stance
- taxicab
- taxi dancer
- taxi rank
- taxi squad
- tuk-tuk
