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e-hail

e-hail noun: the use of an Internet service to hail a taxi or book a ride in a private car on demand.

Noun

e-hail (uncountable)

  1. The use of an Internet service to hail a taxi or book a ride in a private car on demand.
    • Several e-hail services are available in the city, but Uber and Lyft are the most popular. Once you've signed up, a simple tap will search for a car and track it in real time; you pay with a saved credit card.2016, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's New York City

Verb

e-hail (third-person singular simple present e-hails, present participle e-hailing, simple past and past participle e-hailed)

  1. (transitive) To hail a vehicle in this way.
    • Uber began as a premium private car service for San Fran techies. Driven by professional drivers and e-hailed through the proprietary app, Uber town cars were more expensive than a taxi, but cheaper than a limousine; […]2018, Ramon Lobato, Julian Thomas, The Informal Media Economy, page 120
    • It seems rather likely that MaaS implementation may bring an increase of car-based trips (even if shared or e-hailed), and hence result in more emissions and congestions (Eckhardt et al., 2017). First of all, as underlined by Karlsson et al.2020, Ole B. Jensen, Claus Lassen, Vincent Kaufmann, Handbook of Urban Mobilities

Forms of e-hail

third-person singular presente-hails
present participlee-hailing
past participlee-hailed
paste-hailed

Origin of e-hail

From e- + hail.

Questions about e-hail

What does e-hail mean?
E-hail means the use of an Internet service to hail a taxi or book a ride in a private car on demand.
What part of speech is e-hail?
E-hail can be a noun or a verb.

Words near e-hail in the dictionary

  1. e-gram
  2. e-grams
  3. e-group
  4. e-groups
  5. e-guidance
  6. e-hail
  7. e-hailed
  8. e-hailing
  9. e-hails
  10. E-head
  11. E-heads

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