taximeter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of taximeter
1885–90; < French taximètre, equivalent to taxe tax + -i- -i- + -mètre -meter; replacing earlier taxameter < German, equivalent to Taxa (< Medieval Latin: tax, charge) + -meter -meter
Example Sentences
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That meant that an iPhone could function like a taximeter and be used to charge passengers by the minute or the mile.
From The Guardian • Jan. 29, 2017
The U.K.’s High Court Friday ruled that the company’s app doesn’t work as a taximeter, effectively upholding the right of its drivers to work in London, Europe’s largest single city market for the business.
From Time • Oct. 16, 2015
"With their taximeter, their apps that they use, their technology, those are taximeters basically, which by law only we are allowed to use," Fitz told Reuters.
From Reuters • Jun. 11, 2014
The issue at stake is whether Uber's use of the smartphone equates to a taximeter, a talismanic object for black cab drivers, which they feel only they have the right to use.
From BBC • Jun. 8, 2014
We purred extravagantly up the Avenue, and how horrified Aunt Lyddy would be at the taximeter!
From Jane Journeys On by Mitchell, Ruth Comfort
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