At one time there was much discussion in England as to the desirability of legalizing on cabs the use of a mechanical fare-recorder such as, under the name of taximeter or taxameter, is in general use on the continent of Europe.
A taximeter consists of a securely closed and sealed metal box containing a mechanism actuated by a flexible shaft connected with the wheel of the vehicle, in the same manner as the speedometer on a motor car.
If a horse cab is fitted with a taximeter (vide infra) the fare for a journey wholly within or partly without and partly within the four-mile radius, and not exceeding one mile or a period of ten minutes, is sixpence.
In that case, we will take a taximeter cab, and go out into the unknown, hand in hand, trusting to luck.
Now, let us hail yon taximeter cab, and desire the stern-faced aristocrat on the box to drive us to Dulwich.
He called a taximeter cab, and drove rapidly to Berkeley Square.
She stepped into the taximeter and drove away, with a farewell nod, abrupt although not altogether unkindly.
I am not unduly economical, but I hate downright waste, and here was the taximeter ticking all through the rest of that chapter and the next, and further still.
Long after we got away from London altogether and the young doctor was on his way to Hong Kong, racing the detective, I still heard the taximeter ticking; just because the man had never been paid.
A red taximetercab was crawling down the road at their side.
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.
Now that our sleuth-hound friend in the taximeter has ascertained your address, shall you change it?
In the shadow of the Elevated there was standing a taximeter cab.
In the roadway at the foot of the opposite staircase was a red taximeter cab.
I'll be off and get a taximeter automobile instead of this thing, and come back for you whenever you say.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taximeter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
