Taximeter

Word TAXIMETER
Character 9
Hyphenation taximeter
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Taximeter"

What do we mean by taximeter?

An instrument installed in a taxicab to measure distance traveled and waiting time and to compute and indicate the fare. noun

A commercial name of an instrument for automatically recording and mechanically computing the tax or charge to be made for the use of a hired vehicle in accordance with a determined tariff for such charges. noun

A meter in a taxi that registers the fare (based on the length of the ride). noun

A device installed in a taxicab that calculates the fare based upon distance travelled and waiting time. noun

A meter in a taxi that registers the fare (based on the length of the ride) noun

A device installed in a taxicab that calculates the fare based upon distance travelled and waiting time.

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The word "taximeter" in example sentences

While the older compound word taximeter yielded the shorter taxi in English, that shorter word took a shortcut of its own in China. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

Ok so if the taximeter says 20$ but the meter says 40, what are you going to do…argue with a foreign cab driver that youre taximeter which is only 85% accurate is showing a different price? ❋ Unknown (2008)

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. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In your capacity as London mayor-elect why don't you invite him along to No 18 for a quiet chat/debate on all this your sofas - along with a couple of London's finest taximeter cabriolet drivers? ❋ Unknown (2007)

For example, the taximeter used by the Greeks to measure the distance travelled by the wheels of a carriage employed only pairs of gears or gears and worms to achieve the necessary ratio of movement. ❋ Zoe Brain (2005)

In the case of this defence of the Christian conviction I confess that I would as soon begin the argument with one thing as another; I would begin it with a turnip or a taximeter cab. ❋ 1874-1936 (1990)

Stopping only to borrow fifty francs for expenses from the cashier's wicket, Martin hurried his friend into a taximeter cab and gave the brief direction: "Pont de Neuilly." ❋ Max Rittenberg (N/A)

Shirley scrutinized the interior of the machine, but there seemed nothing to distinguish it from the thousands of other piratical craft which pillage the public with the aid of the taximeter clock on the port beam! ❋ Eustace Hale Ball (N/A)

Towards midnight of September 29th the journalists were seated in an open taximeter cab, in a brilliantly lighted square, which some little time before had been swept of rioters -- rioters from the Berlin police point of view being any one, man, woman, or child, who is, with guilty or innocent intent, it makes no difference, in or near a theatre of disturbance. ❋ Stanley Shaw (N/A)

A taximeter consists of a securely closed and sealed metal box containing a mechanism actuated by a flexible shaft connected with the wheel of the vehicle, in the same manner as the speedometer on a motor car. ❋ Various (N/A)

At one time there was much discussion in 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 ❋ Various (N/A)

Baxter, who had received instructions to meet him, relieved him of his travelling bag, and a taximeter cab, whisking him quickly to the ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Adieus were said, and Paul found himself again in his taximeter cab. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Page view page image: constructed as to separate its driver from its passengers by a glass partition, and which said vehicle shall be equipped with a mechanical instrument, or device, commonly known as a taximeter. ❋ Unknown (1932)

A telephone-call came from her very early this morning for Mrs. Winfield which caused Mrs. Winfield to rise and leave in a taximeter-cab in an extreme hurry. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Versatile Comedians and Patterers who had been waiting to see him for the last hour and a half, was bowling off in a taximeter-cab to the ❋ Unknown (1928)

The way I got to watch the clock like it was a taximeter the whole time I'm out anywheres. ❋ Fannie Hurst (1928)

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