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Definition of "taximeter" [taximeter]

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

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "taximeter" in a sentence
  • "While the older compound word taximeter yielded the shorter taxi in English, that shorter word took a shortcut of its own in China."
  • "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?"
  • "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."
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