sherutn.
/ʃeɪˈruːt/ In Israel, a large taxi shared by several passengers.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicles (plying) for hire > [noun] > taxi > types of taxi
hackney cab1832
black taxi1911
Jixi1926
shared taxi1937
share-taxi1943
sherut1950
dolmus1957
taxi1958
gypsy cab1960
minicab1960
Gypsy1968
okada1993
boda boda1995
1950 G. Mikes Milk & Honey 91 Between the two [bus and taxi] there is the communal taxi, the sherut.
1968 P. Durst Badge of Infamy xiv. 133 He flagged down a sherut, one of the ramshackle taxi-cum-buses which plied between Haifa and Tel Aviv.
1977 H. Kaplan Damascus Cover (1978) iii. 21 The sheirut drivers, loudly beckoning arriving passengers to share a taxi to Tel Aviv or Jerusalem.
1981 Daily Tel. 24 June 11 Jitneys and sheruts should be introduced on the roads to make public transport more efficient.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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