| 单词 | privilege cab |
| 释义 | > as lemmasprivilege cab privilege cab n. now historical (in the United Kingdom, at the end of the 19th cent. and the beginning of the 20th cent.) a cab allowed to stand for hire in a place (usually a railway station) from which other cabs were excluded. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > hackney carriage > with exclusive right to stand in specific place privileged cab1852 privilege cab1868 1868 Times 3 Sept. 5/5 Your directors not having suggested any alteration in the privilege cab system, the trade will feel itself bound to carry out its pledge to the resolution. 1907 Times 19 Aug. 16/2 The contracts provide that the privilege cabs shall be of the best type, and that the horses shall be good serviceable animals. 1956 D. G. Browne Rise Scotl. Yard xx. 272 Taximeters were made compulsory for motor-cabs, and ‘privilege’ cabs at railway stations..were abolished. < as lemmas |
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