What's the difference between cabman and taxi?

Cabman


Definition:

  • (n.) The driver of a cab.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The rope led to a hut in the forest that looked like a cabman's shelter .

Taxi


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
  • (2) The two main taxi associations said 100% of their members had parked their cars for the day in an effort to raise awareness over what they called unfair competition.
  • (3) Prosecutors in San Francisco and Los Angeles alleged that it was false for Uber to say it was the leader in screening drivers when its background checks were inferior to the process taxi drivers undergo, since Uber does not include fingerprint checks.
  • (4) Lorry drivers showed excess deaths from stomach cancer (SMR 141, p less than 0.05), lung cancer (SMR 159, p less than 0.05), bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma (SMR 143, p less than 0.05), a pattern not evident among taxi drivers.
  • (5) Ester already has a second child with her husband, who makes a living using his bicycle to provide a taxi service.
  • (6) Mutants in malF and malK are defective in maltose transport at low concentrations as well as high concentrations, as previously shown, but are essentially normal in maltose taxis.
  • (7) His business mentor was Andre Rousselet, a close friend of François Mitterrand, who appointed him to run the well-known French taxi firm Taxi G7 where he made his fortune.
  • (8) Taxis will still accept customers hailing them from the street.
  • (9) The head of the New South Wales taxi council has lashed out at Labor leader Luke Foley’s support for Uber, likening the system to “WorkChoices on steroids”.
  • (10) SpaceX is among four firms vying to build space taxis to fly astronauts, tourists and non-Nasa researchers.
  • (11) Gilbride, now a taxi driver in Stirling, has refused to comment.
  • (12) A taxi driver in the Dominican Republic, when shown a picture of Brown, said: "I picked him up from a Thomson flight three months ago.
  • (13) They had been drinking and he persuaded her back to the hotel and said he’d get her a taxi home.
  • (14) One investor who spoke up in defence of bonuses – the former City fund manager and Conservative party donor Patrick Evershed – was jeered by one of those present, who shouted "call him a taxi".
  • (15) Amsterdam Uber drivers have been blocked in by taxi drivers and one reported having his tyres slashed.
  • (16) Yadav’s victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she had dozed off in a taxi while returning home from dinner.
  • (17) Many are first- or second-generation immigrants from places such as Afghanistan, Poland, Somalia and Nigeria eager to sign up to drive for the US tech company, whose phone-based minicab-hailing app has transformed the taxi industry in 58 countries.
  • (18) A business trip to New York in November 2006, in which Bennett spent £315.16 staying at the W Hotel in Manhattan, saw her claim £2.49 for a taxi to check in to the hotel following a board meeting and £2.49 for one because she was "carrying bags and confidential paperwork".
  • (19) Almost all taxi and private hire drivers have been self-employed for decades before our app existed and with Uber they have more control.
  • (20) The voices of the other characters – Thomas's mother as well as a cast of recognisable grotesques: a taxi driver, a bully, the local drunk – add to the atmosphere of dissolving reality and, at times, to the sense that they may exist only in Magill's head.

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