| 单词 | cab hirer |
| 释义 | > as lemmascab hirer b. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which cab expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in cab hirer, cab operator, cab owner, cab user, etc.Recorded earliest in cab driver n. at Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. vi. 56 The exclamations of coachmen in the rear, desiring the cab-driver, (invisible to them), to ‘pull on a bit’. 1864 Social Sci. Rev. 1 407 The relations of cab-masters and cab-men..cab-owners and cab-hirers. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 22 May 5/3 The ins and outs of the matter are but imperfectly understood by the mass of cab-users. 1897 Daily News 19 Oct. 2/3 The death of C. W...a cabwasher. 1907 Daily Mail 11 May 3/4 In order to keep observation on certain houses Gregory often adopted the rôle of a pavement artist. Another disguise was that of a cab-minder on the ranks. 1922 National Taxicab & Motorbus Jrnl. Apr. 31/3 An important news item concerning the activities of cab manufacturers is contained in this announcement. 2016 Toronto Star (Nexis) 13 Feb. in7 Cab owners and operators pay their various licence fees in good faith and are free to choose when they work, and when they don't. < as lemmas |
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