单词 | taximeter maker |
释义 | > as lemmastaximeter maker C1. General use in various compounds (some now historical), with the sense ‘of or relating to a taximeter (sense 1); using or incorporating a taximeter’, as taximeter hansom, taximeter maker, taximeter system, taximeter vehicle. ΚΠ 1899 Financial Times 25 Mar. 5/5 (headline) The taxameter trouble. 1903 Daily Chron. 16 Nov. 4/5 Some years ago there was an attempt to introduce the taxameter system, which is the rule in all big German towns. The London cabman would have none of it. 1906 Daily Chron. 20 Feb. 4/1 A few minutes later a taxameter motor brougham drove up with the bride. 1907 Daily News 18 Mar. 9 By the end of this week London may expect that about sixty taximeter motor cabs will be plying for hire in the streets. 1919 R. W. Pullman Rep. Superintendent Metrop. Police D. C. 95 Every hack, vehicle, motor vehicle, automobile, taximeter vehicle..shall have permanently affixed to the interior thereof....[a card displaying] the schedule of rates. 1959 P. Bull I know Face xi. 200 Lambert kindly escorted me in a taximeter-cabriolet. 2009 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 30 Oct. 10 The premature charges were caused by a programming error by taximeter maker, Centrodyne Inc. < as lemmas |
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