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taximeter
Alternative clues for the word taximeter
Word definitions for taximeter in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A taximeter is a mechanical or electronic device installed in taxicabs and auto rickshaws that calculates passenger fares based on a combination of distance travelled and waiting time. Its shortened form, "taxi", is also a metonym for the hired cars that ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a meter in a taxi that registers the fare (based on the length of the ride)
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A device installed in a taxicab that calculates the fare based upon distance travelled and waiting time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
taximeter \taximeter\ n. 1. a meter in a taxi that registers the fare (based on the length of the ride).
Usage examples of taximeter.
In the roadway at the foot of the opposite staircase was a red taximeter cab.
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.
He then hailed a taximeter from the stand opposite the Army and Navy Stores, and curtly gave the address of the Grand Babylon Hotel.
Ran retrieved his credit chip from the taximeter, ran to the phone, and punched TRIDENT on the keypad.
Office of the Director of Traffic in Dublin City Council decided, in deference to the sensitivities of the good people of the Dublin Taximeter Area, to refrain from describing the precise circumstances under which such a charge is payable.
Being derived from any miniature English car by the sole process of attaching a taximeter to the dashboard, the driver and passengers are huddled together as cozily as olives in a jar.
The red rose he tucked into the side of his taximeter, where it gradually dried and blackened, remaining tightly furled but fragrant, until he plucked it off and threw it out the window over the Westminster Bridge nearly three weeks later.
England as to the desirability of legalizing on cabs the use of a mechanical fare-recorder such as, under the name of taximeter or taxameter, is in general use on the continent of Europe.
Now, let us hail yon taximeter cab, and desire the stern-faced aristocrat on the box to drive us to Dulwich.
In that case, we will take a taximeter cab, and go out into the unknown, hand in hand, trusting to luck.
Creating taximeters was not too great a problem, once Pete understood the monetary exchange of the city.
I have rooms for you gentlemen all on one floor of a hotel near the Opera, and taximeters are in waiting.
Wilvern gestured toward the cabs, where motors were still running and taximeters merrily clicking up the fares.