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- noun Plural form of
jitney .
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Examples
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He called them "jitneys," from the old English word for a small transport vehicle.
WSJ Article Jen Wieczner 2010
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The operation fell into federal receivership twice, changed hands several times and faced competition from both "jitneys" (essentially bandit taxis that would pick up streetcar passengers before it could get to them) and, later, buses.
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Help them buy cars if they can drive, otherwise give them mobility vouchers to use with taxis and jitneys in a free transport market.
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Give them mobility vouchers to use with taxis and jitneys in a free transport market.
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Dying right there as the world gawked, as the jitneys jostled noisily through traffic.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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Maybe we need to let them freely compete with town cars, limos, jitneys and Trimet.
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Dying right there as the world gawked, as the jitneys jostled noisily through traffic.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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So I think what's going to happen, actually, is some weird kind of merger between buses, taxis, light rail, not-so-light rail, and also things like jitneys and car share companies.
Harvey Wasserman: A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia 2009
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So in Solartopia the trunk lines are all rail, and then the buses and the jitneys and the taxis all work into the capillaries of the system.
Harvey Wasserman: A Green-Powered Trip to Eco-Solartopia 2009
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Now, I think most of us think of para-transit as, you know, kind of buses and jitneys that serve folks that have disabilities.
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