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CAB DRIVER

Specialty Definition: CAB DRIVER

DomainDefinition

Occupations

Drives taxicab to transport passengers for fee: Picks up passengers in response to radio or telephone relayed request for service. Collects fee recorded on taximeter based on mileage or time factor and records transaction on log. Reports by radio or telephone to TAXICAB STARTER (motor trans.) 913.367-010 on completion of trip. May drive limousine or custom-built sedan to pick up and discharge airport passengers arriving or leaving on scheduled flights and be designated Chauffeur, Airport Limousine (motor trans.). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: CAB DRIVER

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I'm not a cab driver, I'm a coffeepot! (Arsenic and Old Lace; writing credit: Ryuzo Kikushima; Akira Kurosawa)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: CAB DRIVER

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Photo Album: CAB DRIVER

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Caption: Publicity Shot, Man Carrying Voicewriter under His Arm and Giving Instructions to Cab Driver; Unknown Date; {29.320/292} (jpg).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CAB DRIVER

SubjectTopicQuote

Human Rights

Ghana

According to press reports, the student was shot after he intervened in a dispute between the policeman and a cab driver; he died en route to a hospital. (references)

Bahamas

There were no formal complaints filed involving beatings to extract confessions during the year; however, in November a cab driver alleged that he was beaten by a Road Traffic Department Officer for ignoring an order to stop. (references)

Travel

Sweden

The difference is that the cab driver will open the door for you and help you with your luggage. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: CAB DRIVER

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

cab driver

33

cab driver greater london taxi

5

cab driver song

5

taxi cab driver

3

cab driver lyrics

3

cab driver jimmy

3

cab driver home take

2

cab driver shot

2

cab driver las vegas

2

cab driver music

2

8 cab driver shot times

2

cab driver mr

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CAB DRIVER

Language Translations for "CAB DRIVER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

taxikář (taxi driver, taximan). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

ajuri (cabman). (various references)

   

German

  

taxifahrer (cabbies, cabby, cabman, cabmen, hackie, taxi driver). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ταξιτζής (taxi driver). (various references)

   

Italian

  

tassista (cabby, cabdriver, cabman, taxi driver, taxi-driver). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

abcay iverdray

   

Portuguese

  

motorista de táxi (cabby, taxi-driver, taxi-man). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

taxichaufför (cab-driver, cabman, taxi driver, taxi-driver, taximan), droskkusk (jarvey). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

taksici (cabman, hack, taxi driver, taxi-man), taksi şoförü (cabby, cabman, hackie, taxi driver, taxi-man), araba sürücüsü. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

таксист (cabby), візник (cab, cabby, cabman, carrier, charioteer, driver, wainer), водій таксі (cabby, cabman). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: CAB DRIVER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cabdriver.

Words within the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-r-r-v"

-2 letters: acrider, arrived, braider, carbide, carried.

-3 letters: abider, adverb, advice, arider, arrive, bardic, barred, birder, birred, braced, bracer, braved, braver, briard, carder, caribe, caried, carved, carver, cervid, craved, craver, driver, racier, raider, varied, varier, verbid.

-4 letters: abide, acerb, acred, acrid, aider, aired, airer, aiver, arced, ardeb, areic, barde, bared, barer, baric, barre, beard, bider.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-c-d-e-i-r-r-v"
 

+1 letter: cabdrivers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Images: Slideshow
3. Images: Photo Album
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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