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Meaning of "cabdriver" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CABDRIVER

cabdriver  [ˈkæbˌdraɪvə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CABDRIVER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cabdriver is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CABDRIVER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

cabdriver

Taxicab

A taxicab, also known as a taxi or a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choice. This differs from other modes of public transport where the pick-up and drop-off locations are determined by the service provider, not by the passenger, although demand responsive transport and share taxis provide a hybrid bus/taxi mode. There are four distinct forms of taxicab, which can be identified by slightly differing terms in different countries: ▪ Hackney carriages, also known as public hire, hailed or street taxis, licensed for hailing throughout communities ▪ Private hire vehicles, also known as minicabs or private hire taxis, licensed for pre-booking only ▪ Taxibuses, also known as jitneys, operating on pre-set routes typified by multiple stops and multiple independent passengers ▪ Limousines, specialized...

Definition of cabdriver in the English dictionary

The definition of cabdriver in the dictionary is a taxi driver.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CABDRIVER


arriver
əˈraɪvə
conjunctiva
ˌkɒndʒʌŋkˈtaɪvə
conniver
kəˈnaɪvə
contriver
kənˈtraɪvə
deriver
dɪˈraɪvə
diver
ˈdaɪvə
driver
ˈdraɪvə
fiver
ˈfaɪvə
Godiva
ɡəˈdaɪvə
hiver
ˈhaɪvə
nondriver
ˌnɒnˈdraɪvə
owner-driver
ˈəʊnəˈdraɪvə
reviver
rɪˈvaɪvə
Saiva
ˈsaɪvə
saliva
səˈlaɪvə
screwdriver
ˈskruːˌdraɪvə
shriver
ˈʃraɪvə
striver
ˈstraɪvə
survivor
səˈvaɪvə
thriver
ˈθraɪvə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CABDRIVER

cabbageworm
cabbagey
cabbagy
cabbala
cabbalism
cabbalist
cabbalistic
cabbalistical
cabbie
CABE
caber
cabernet
Cabernet Sauvignon
cabestro
cabezon
cabezone
cabildo
Cabimas
cabin

WORDS THAT END LIKE CABDRIVER

ambulance driver
coach driver
deliver
drunk driver
head of the river
hit-and-run driver
learner driver
pile-driver
race car driver
racing driver
rally driver
reckless driver
river
slave driver
slave-driver
Sunday driver
taxi driver
the river
tractor driver
truck driver
woman driver

Synonyms and antonyms of cabdriver in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cabdriver» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CABDRIVER

Find out the translation of cabdriver to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of cabdriver from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cabdriver» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

出租车司机
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

taxista
570 millions of speakers

English

cabdriver
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cabdriver
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

سائق سيارة أجرة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Водитель такси
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

taxista
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ক্যাব চালক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chauffeur de taxi
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

pemandu teksi
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Taxifahrer
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cabdriver
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

택시 운전사
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cabdriver
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tài xế taxi
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாடகை வண்டி ஓட்டுனர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कॅब्रिटर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

taksi şoförü
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cabdriver
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

taksówkarz
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

водій таксі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

taximetrist
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ταξιτζή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

cabdriver
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

cabdriver
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

cabdriver
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cabdriver

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CABDRIVER»

The term «cabdriver» is regularly used and occupies the 96.460 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CABDRIVER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about cabdriver

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QUOTES WITH «CABDRIVER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word cabdriver.
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Demian Bichir
I wanted to give my actor a break. I wanted to live and to learn English. I wanted to be anything, a cabdriver, a busboy, anything to keep me away from acting for a while.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CABDRIVER»

Discover the use of cabdriver in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to cabdriver and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver
Taxi! is the first book-length history of New York City cabdrivers and the community they compose.
Graham Russell Gao Hodges, 2009
2
Diary of a Taxi Driver: True Stories from Singapore's Most ...
"This book is not just the story of what it is like to be a taxi driver: It offers snapshots of a Singapore literally on the move, of a restless and dissatisfied population, of people rushing to be somewhere else.
Cai Mingjie Phd, Mingjie Cai, 2010
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the great ghost chase
SERGEANT RUFF: I'm with the Red Army. The enemy is the Green Army. I figure the Green Army will attempt to occupy this house. They could use it for a command post. It's in a strategic location. You understand? CABDRIVER: Uh-huh .
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Yard Sale
CABDRIVER: Look, Miss, when you got into the back of my cab, you must have seen the sign. (REX and JACK ENTER from cloakroom. BOTH are struck dumb by the sight of gorgeous CANDY) REX: Wow! Who's that? JACK: I think I'm in love .
Tim J. Kelly, 1995
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This Old House
CANDY: Back home I was voted "Most Popular Girl On Campus." CABDRIVER: Last week I was voted "Most Impatient Cabdriver In Town." I'm still waiting for my five-sixty-five, plus a buck-fifty apiece for them suitcases. CANDY: (Bats her ...
6
Joy of Sumo
Tochitsukasa Maegashira #2 Anko Cabdriver 15. Sakahoko Maegashira #2 Soppu Cabdriver 16. Ital Maegashira #3 Anko Butterball 17. Kotoinazuma Maegashira #3 Soppu Cabdriver 18. Tochinowaka Maegashira #4 Soppu Cabdriver 19.
David Benjamin, 1991
7
Portraying 9/11: Essays on Representations in Comics, ...
The image shows an iconic New York City yellow cab, driven by yet another New York icon: the non–Anglo, or “foreign,” cabdriver, here (determined by the nar- rative of 9/11) a bearded Muslim man wearing a turban and a long-sleeved robe.
Véronique Bragard,, Christophe Dony, Warren Rosenberg, 2011
8
Mapping St. Petersburg: Imperial Text and Cityshape
Zhivotov's 1894 Petersburg Profiles ( Peterburgskie profili) document his experiences disguised, in turn, as cabdriver, tramp, funeral torchbearer, and waiter.68 In this, Zhivotov updates the practices of the Natural School ethnographer by ...
Julie A. Buckler, 2005
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Pro Objective-C Design Patterns for iOS
A class diagram for the taxicab example—the CabDriver class is a façade of the Taxicab subsystem. You can see the whole taxicab service as a closed system that includes a cab driver, a car, and a taximeter. The only way you can interface  ...
Carlo Chung, 2011
10
A Spy Among Us
The cabdriver kept driving until he reached the Walled City and stopped in front of a Catholic church, hastily making the sign of the cross. “I am saape here in Intramuros.” “The police won't find you in the Walled City. Did you know that man in ...
Dorothy Fleming, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CABDRIVER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cabdriver is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Vasek Pospisil takes long road to Wimbledon quarters: DiManno
30 seed Fabio Fognoni and wild card James Ward, son of a London cabdriver. That match was played in front of a raucously partisan crowd. «OurWindsor.ca, Jul 15»
2
Paul Verhoeven's Authenticity Came to Light at Chicago's Logan …
Characters are revealed not to be whom they say they are, whether it's Lori, the cabdriver Benny, Quaid's coworkers, the leader of the Martian ... «PopMatters, Jul 15»
3
Uber's arrival OK with some Las Vegas cabbies
Catch a ride with a Las Vegas cabdriver these days, and you might expect to hear a lament about the precarious future of the taxi racket now ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jul 15»
4
'Amy' charts the rise and demise of Amy Winehouse
The former cabdriver who sang Frank Sinatra songs to Amy when she was a child and released his own album of swing classics in 2011, ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
5
Federer, Murray Advance at Wimbledon
A day after Heather Watson lost a close match to Serena Williams in three sets, James Ward, the son of a local cabdriver, lost in five sets to ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
6
Girl delivers grandma's letters of apology in Backman's novel
She gets protection during her deliveries from Alf, the cabdriver who tells her, “Your grandmother would have bloody beaten the life out of me if ... «STLtoday.com, Jul 15»
7
Man steals taxi on Canal Street, crashes a block away
Cabdriver Edy Cadet said he parked his van taxi in front of the Sheraton New Orleans Hotel, 500 Canal St. and -- leaving the keys in the ... «NOLA.com, Jul 15»
8
Man Arrested Over $749 Cab Fare
According to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Williams, 35, told cabdriver Mohammed Uddin that he didn't have the $749 fare, so Uddin called ... «The Root, Jul 15»
9
Still pro-abortion, NY Times essayist admits abortion “is awful”
The begging cabdriver and the woman on her ninth abortion and the shocking suction in my womb: It was too traumatic for me to make art of. «National Right to Life News, Jul 15»
10
Historic Vote May Determine Whether Greece Remains In The …
But many in Greece, such as Athens cabdriver Jordan Repanidis, feel this historic reshaping of the Western world has a stranglehold on their ... «WUIS 91.9, Jul 15»

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