taxi

noun

/ˈtæksi/

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(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 Examples
- 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
Topics Transport by car or lorrya1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- air
- water
verb + taxi
- take
- book (somebody)
- call (somebody)
- …
taxi + noun
- cab
- company
- firm
- …
phrases
- by taxi
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(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’.

taxi

verb

/ˈtæksi/

[intransitive]

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they taxi	/ˈtæksi/ /ˈtæksi/
he / she / it taxies	/ˈtæksiz/ /ˈtæksiz/
past simple taxied	/ˈtæksid/ /ˈtæksid/
past participle taxied	/ˈtæksid/ /ˈtæksid/
-ing form taxiing	/ˈtæksiɪŋ/ /ˈtæksiɪŋ/

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(of a plane) to move slowly along the ground before taking off or after landingTopics Transport by airc2
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’.