I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a taxi/bus/truck etc driver
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Car drivers face a new daily charge to enter the capital.
by car/train/bus/taxi etc
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They travelled to Chicago by train.
courtesy bus/taxi/car/phone etc
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The hotel runs a courtesy bus from the airport.
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Most reviewers receive a courtesy copy of the book.
hail a cab/taxi
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The hotel doorman will hail a cab for you.
taxi rank
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
driver
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When our taxi driver picks us up, he looks like he has just been told a good joke.
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Another of those badly hurt was Mr Alan Ray, a taxi driver .
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The taxi driver was a friend of ours so we were able to relax driving to the Airport.
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Kee paid the taxi driver , and went in.
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Mum and I said goodbye to David the taxi driver and went into the airport.
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I know what profession she's in, and no wonder that taxi driver was giving me the big smirk.
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The 21-year-old had seized 58-year-old taxi driver Derek round the throat and grabbed his £68 takings.
fare
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It usually covers the cost of accommodation, breakfast, a main meal and return taxi fare from airport to hotel.
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Shortly after midnight, Josie handed Lucy her taxi fare and told her to scram.
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Don't be afraid occasionally to challenge claims for taxi fares and expensive meals.
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He still faces four charges of dodging taxi fares of between eleven and 50 pounds.
firm
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So now he worked for a taxi firm .
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Paradise Cars in Oxford is one of the few taxi firms run by women for women.
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Last week the eight taxi firms declared a boycott of Golcar, a Pennine village on Hudderfield's fringe.
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Some taxi firms said they did not want blood in their cars.
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Detectives want to speak to a man who phoned a taxi firm in Berkeley on that same morning.
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He owns a taxi firm in Hartlepool and lives in Wolviston.
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Mr. Needham I know of no surreptitious exercise being carried out by my Department in regard to private taxi firms in Belfast.
rank
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He scurried over to the taxi rank .
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But the taxi rank outside the hotel had been full and idle and the target had been straight into a vehicle.
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The men were shot as they waited to pick up fares at a Castle Street taxi rank .
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The front line is this taxi rank in the town centre.
ride
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The centre is a thirty minute walk or a five minute taxi ride away.
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She says did you enjoy your taxi ride ?
service
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Urban transport would be reduced by 40 percent and taxi services would be limited to taking people to hospital or to funerals.
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He ran a taxi service for a time and also a souvenir store.
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Women-only taxi services are being encouraged under the same Safer Cities programme.
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This means that nobody is around to use the local amenities including shops, taxi services , libraries and the like.
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Read in studio A taxi service with a difference is being launched which looks certain to become a runaway success with tourists.
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Carole telephoned his taxi service three times that week.
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It wasn't till the news that night that we realised we had been filmed while doing these taxi service for people.
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On being caught out playing taxi service at the bottom of the North Sea?
water
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A network of subsidized cargo barges and water taxis would be introduced on the city's canals to compensate.
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Each day, private water taxis will take the group to and from Isola Bisentina, once a retreat of popes.
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Narrow wooden piers with sunbathing platforms stretch into the clear sea, host to visiting water taxis and yachts.
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Eventually we came to an ancient tree-lined canal with a long-tailed water taxi parked at a dock.
■ VERB
call
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At about 10.45 a.m. on Sunday morning, he called a taxi .
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Theresa called a taxi for them.
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The only difference is that they are called taxis .
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I packed my reliable trainers instead and called for a taxi .
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She would leave at once, call a taxi and get back to Paris.
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He distinguishes between two different types of order, which he calls taxis and cosmos.
catch
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I caught a taxi home with Gina that night.
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She stopped a local man in the train station and asked where we might catch a taxi .
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On being caught out playing taxi service at the bottom of the North Sea?
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He was attacked and robbed while waiting to catch a taxi home from a dance.
drive
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I am just a very confused mortal who has to get up and go to work driving a taxi in the morning.
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For a few weeks, he drove a taxi while searching for a permanent appointment.
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Then he drove the taxi fast down the road.
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Suddenly, Kiah drove the taxi off the road.
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Ivor Krutch used to drive a taxi in Toronto.
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The men found work driving taxis to support an extended family with 15 members crammed into one small first-floor apartment.
find
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To my consternation, I found the taxi was empty.
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He found a taxi and came with us, escorting us into the hospital.
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I find Rainbow in her taxi , on the prowl.
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She went back to her office, put on her coat, and went to find a taxi .
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She managed to find a taxi in the cavernous gloom of the station.
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He ran out into the wet streets saying he would find a taxi .
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They must have found nothing with the taxi companies and rent-a-car.
get
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As she got a taxi three other women tried to get in as well and a row ensued.
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I could get a taxi easily enough, or perhaps you'd care to drive me.
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She got out of the taxi on Des Voeux and handed the driver a crumpled fistful of Hong Kong dollars.
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Then we get back to the taxi , and there you are waving your weaponry, and kidnapping us.
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She'd never get a taxi in this weather.
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I got a taxi as soon as I stepped out of the back door.
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But Aileen couldn't or wouldn't stop crying, and finally Doug suggested that she get a taxi and go home.
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She'd have to get a taxi home.
hail
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Rachel left the office and ran out on to Des Voeux, hailing a taxi to take her home.
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He wanted it all to go smoothly right down to hailing a taxi .
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Not to be denied, at least a dozen fans hailed waiting taxis and set off in pursuit.
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Converse walked the several blocks to Pasteur Street and hailed a taxi , taking care not to signal with the Offending Gesture.
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At the third attempt I gave up and hailed a taxi .
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Mark hailed a taxi and they were away.
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He hailed a taxi , directed it to First Avenue and Sixty-third Street.
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Tony hailed a black taxi sailing past and they leapt into the back.
take
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I take a taxi to Belcourt, the area where Albert Camus grew up.
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Bernard and I took a taxi to a hostel.
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He bought a couple of newspapers, then took a taxi with his luggage to the Hotel Palma.
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They took a taxi to his place, and once inside the cab his hand wandered on to her knee.
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Gardette Armour, a 19-year-old waitress, says she has stopped walking home at night and takes a taxi .
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On the mad, bad roads of Moscow, there's no point taking a registered taxi .
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She and the wife of another detained paramilitary officer took a taxi shortly afterwards.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A taxi journey from the Airport to the University takes approximately 20 minutes.
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Angry taxi drivers responded by boycotting a planned workshop on treating customers courteously.
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Getting a taxi is a battle.
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He went searching for a taxi , his subconscious mind at work.
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In the back of the taxi , our two temporary travelling companions sit as far apart as possible.
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The taxi driver who approached us outside the terminal was fluent enough to say he had been sent by the tour company.
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The tube workers had a whip-round to pay for a taxi to the railway station.
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Wally said brightly to the suddenly befuddled taxi driver.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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An hour later, taxiing across the glimmering surface of the lake, the floatplane approached the jetty.
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It was a wonderful feeling to put up an affirmative two fingers as the mechanic helped me taxi in.
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Packer and Sheehy were both taxiing around Sydney airport in their respective corporate jets on Tuesday when they accidentally collided.
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Slim Gordon started the motors and they were off, taxiing into position.