taximeter

IPA: tˈæksʌmitɝ

A device installed in a taxicab that calculates the fare based upon distance travelled and waiting time.

Examples of "taximeter" in Sentences

While the older compound word taximeter yielded the shorter taxi in English, that shorter word took a shortcut of its own in China.
In the case of this defence of the Christian conviction I confess that I would as soon begin the argument with one thing as another; I would begin it with a turnip or a taximeter cab.
Ok so if the taximeter says 20$ but the meter says 40, what are you going to do…argue with a foreign cab driver that youre taximeter which is only 85% accurate is showing a different price?
In your capacity as London mayor-elect why don't you invite him along to No 18 for a quiet chat/debate on all this your sofas - along with a couple of London's finest taximeter cabriolet drivers?
For example, the taximeter used by the Greeks to measure the distance travelled by the wheels of a carriage employed only pairs of gears or gears and worms to achieve the necessary ratio of movement.
Shirley scrutinized the interior of the machine, but there seemed nothing to distinguish it from the thousands of other piratical craft which pillage the public with the aid of the taximeter clock on the port beam!
The words of the man at the Astor, and still more the episodes of the family friend from Missouri and the taximeter cab, had shown him that this thing was on a different plane from anything that had happened to him before.