taxi

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Our hotel offered a "taxi" ride to the party for 50B each - the taxi was a pickup truck with approximately 10 people squeezed into the back of it with another five in the front.

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  1. noun A taxicab.
  2. intransitive verb To be transported by taxi.
  3. intransitive verb To move slowly on the ground or on the surface of the water before takeoff or after landing: an airplane taxiing down the runway.
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  • I called a taxi, the same one that picked up my grocery order every week from Lovejoy's Market. —  EQMM, July 2005
  • The first thing Maigret noticed when he got out of his taxi was the dark patch made on the silver pavement by a fawn raincoat. —  Maigret’s Dead Man - Georges Simenon - 56: 1948
  • At this point her taxi was announced and Harold was summoned to a long-distance call from London. —  Collected Short Fiction of Ngaio Marsh
  • Police told her if she needed to move she could call a taxi, and that 911 is just for emergencies. —  Firstcoastnews.com Local News
  • If a taxi is available, the driver will call you by mobile phone to find out the pickup point. —  Tan Kin Lian's Blog
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