taxi driver
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- noun
- /ˈtæksi ˈdraɪvər/
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taxista
- The taxi driver picked me up from the airport and helped with my luggage.
- work as a taxi driver
- become a taxi driver
- many taxi drivers
But he said Max Mustafa's dad was a taxi driver in Belfast.
- But he said Max Mustafa's dad was a taxi driver in Belfast.
- Then the second generation came which became the the taxi drivers, the Uber drivers.
- So Travis Bickle, for people who don't know, is is a taxi driver, and he's deeply lonely.
- So an awful lot of people are employed as drivers, as lorry drivers and taxi drivers.
- You know, I tip the waiter, he takes a taxi home and tips the taxi driver and the taxi driver takes the tip and puts gas in her taxi.
- So the, the experience of an Indian doctor in Harrow is, is a world away from a taxi driver in Bradford, you know what I mean?
- I'm telling you because not every taxi driver in Newcastle has the story I'm telling you now.
- One of the examples is the London Taxi Driver study, phenomenal study where they compared London taxi drivers to bus drivers.
- Is it worth society losing the Area C in order to transfer the Area B from consumers to taxicab drivers?
- You don't know if other taxi drivers, they're all green.
- Same is true of doctors, taxi drivers, most people really.
- New York City, the land of coached up taxi drivers and women who may be men.
Examples
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"Go down and tell the taxi driver to come up to help me."
Fiction book (1999) -
So these are real live cabs with real live taxi drivers with real live paying passengers going into them.
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And when you have done that as a British taxi driver, you get what they call the knowledge.
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This is the first thing that the taxi driver asked me when I got out of the train at the station just now.
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Yesterday, I hired a taxi driver to drive me around for an hour.
Fiction book (1996) -
I heard him talk to the taxi driver who waited for him outside.
Fiction book (2000) -
There's a female taxi driver.
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But he said Max Mustafa's dad was a taxi driver in Belfast.
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I know you are but you're too drunk to walk to your car - so this taxi driver will give you a lift.
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But, Buddie... you're our favorite taxi driver.
Synonyms
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A person who drives a taxi
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A person who drives a taxi and takes people to where they want to go
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A person who drives a taxi or hired car and gets paid
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A person who drives a taxi
A person who drives a taxi for a living
A person who takes people somewhere in a taxi for money
A person who drives a taxi as a job
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person who drives a taxi' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'taxi' (hired car) with 'driver' (person who drives); there is no idiomatic or metaphorical shift. This noun–noun compound pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English composition, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun taxi driver comes from taxi, short for 'taxicab', a hired car that charged a 'fare'. A driver is the person who drives that car, so a taxi driver is simply someone who carries passengers and collects the 'fare'.