Definition of "taxi rank" []

• An area reserved for taxi cabs to await customers. (noun)
• The system whereby barristers must accept a brief if they are the first available when one comes up. (noun)

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• "They had passed the straggling group of sight-seers outside the iron gate, had seen them nudge each other and stare at Sutane with studiously blank faces, and they were halfway down the broad hot road to the taxi rank before Uncle William caught them up."