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shared taxi

shared taxi noun: a vehicle for hire, typically smaller than a bus, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables, departing when all seats are filled.

shared taxi: a vehicle for hire, typically smaller than a bus, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route...
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Noun

shared taxi (plural shared taxis)

  1. A vehicle for hire, typically smaller than a bus, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables, departing when all seats are filled.
    • In contrast to the mass transit role of the servis taxis in Amman, the shared taxis in Bahrain offered a specialised supplement to the main transport services. Only about 1.5% of all person trips per day were made in 1981 by shared taxi, and they carried only about a quarter as many passengers as...1986, D. Coombe et al., “The Role of Paratransit”, in Moving People in Tomorrow's World..., page 115

shared taxi meaning in Tagalog, Arabic, Malay and Indonesian

shared taxi in Tagalog

a vehicle for hire, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables — see also marshrutka, matatu, songthaew
dyipni, dyip

shared taxi in Arabic

a vehicle for hire, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables — see also marshrutka, matatu, songthaew
سَيَّارَةُ أُجْرَةٍ مُشْتَرَكَة sayyāratu ʔujratin muštaraka, سَيَّارَةُ أُجْرَةٍ جَمَاعِيَّة sayyāratu ʔujratin jamāʕiyya, طَاكْسِي جَمَاعِيّ ṭāksī jamāʕiyy

shared taxi in Malay

a vehicle for hire, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables — see also marshrutka, matatu, songthaew
dua baris, teksi kongsi

shared taxi in Indonesian

a vehicle for hire, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables — see also marshrutka, matatu, songthaew
angkutan kota, angkot, angkutan desa, angdes, angkudes, mikrolet
More languagesFewer languages
shared taxi in Thai
สองแถว sɔ̌ɔng-tɛ̌o

Synonyms of shared taxi

4 more synonymsFewer synonyms

Forms of shared taxi

pluralshared taxis

Questions about shared taxi

What does shared taxi mean?
Shared taxi means a vehicle for hire, typically smaller than a bus, taking passengers on a fixed or semi-fixed route without timetables, departing when all seats are filled.
What is shared taxi in Tagalog?
Shared taxi in Tagalog is dyipni, dyip. See Shared taxi meaning in Tagalog.
What part of speech is shared taxi?
Shared taxi is a noun.
What is the plural of shared taxi?
The plural of shared taxi is shared taxis.

Words near shared taxi in the dictionary

  1. shared pointers
  2. shared service
  3. shared services
  4. shared sorrow is half sorrow
  5. shared space
  6. shared taxi
  7. shared taxis
  8. shared universe
  9. shared universes
  10. shared up
  11. shared use path

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