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
After landing, the American Airlines plane taxied for about eight minutes before the right engine caught fire, billowing out thick clouds of smoke.—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 1 Apr. 2025 Rural mail carriers for the U.S. Postal Service will also be exempt when carrying out deliveries, as will taxi passengers.—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
Verb
Tesla is increasingly banking its future on self-driving technology and autonomous taxi operations.—Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2025 Kyle MacLachlan lends a helping hand in the Gods Love We Deliver Kitchen in N.Y.C. to celebrate their 40th Anniversary.
Usher and his wife Jennifer Goicoechea are seen cruising through Venice lagoon on a taxi boat ahead of Jeff Bezos' wedding with Lauren Sánchez, on June 27.—Toria Sheffield, People.com, 1 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for taxi
Like any car show, this is often done by a small handful of brands who mostly just put consumers in the passenger seat and chauffeur them around.
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Peter Nelson,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
Driving a golf cart on this land that time forgot—where cars are banned to all but locals—feels not at all different from being chauffeured in the back for a Rolls-Royce Phantom across Hong Kong.
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