an automobile that carries passengers for a fare usually determined by the distance traveled
couldn't hail a taxi so I had to run in the rain to make my appointment
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Recent Examples of taxi
Noun
Based on the current taxi and ride-hailing car market, Bank of America estimates total demand for eVTOL air taxis could reach 200,000 units in the future.—Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 18 May 2025 But low pay for drivers isn’t fundamental to the business of taxi and food delivery work.—Daniel Ocampo, Hartford Courant, 18 May 2025
Verb
According to two anonymous passengers who spoke to KPNX, the disruption began just as the aircraft started taxiing.—Amber Corrine, VIBE.com, 7 Mar. 2025 The aircraft landed safely and taxied to gate C38, where the fire broke out.—Bruce Finley, Denver Post, 1 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for taxi
His diary-like home production This Is Not a Film was produced under house arrest, while the masterful Taxi was shot within the confines of a cab that the director himself drove around Tehran.
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Eric Kohn,
HollywoodReporter,
30 May 2025
This yellow cab charm in particular is an appropriate symbol of the city: right up there with a pretzel and a pigeon.
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