taxi-driver

plural taxi-drivers

1. alternativeAlternative form of taxi driver.

   As city centre taxi-drivers based at Leeds railway station, they had very few passengers yesterday due to the train strike and took a break in the park.

   2022 July 28, Robyn Vinter, “‘She’s delusional’ MP’s disdain for former school wins her few friends in Leeds”, in The Guardian, page 12, columns 4–5

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   The difficulty of snuff in its return to the drawing-room is its popularity in the street—you remember the lady who put fur capes out of fashion by clothing her coachman and footman in them. It was on a Sunday morning that an observer saw the flower-girls around the Royal Exchange accepting a pinch of snuff from the taxi-driver.

   1908 March 27, The Lichfield Mercury with Which Is Incorporated “The Tamworth Mercury” & “The Sutton Coldfield Mercury.”, number 1509, page 7, column 5

   “We need to hear from anyone who may have dash-cam footage, including taxi-drivers who were in the area of Long Row West and Angel Row at the time, or any mobile phone footage of the incident.”

   2020 January 20, John Dunne, quoting Richard Monk, “Murder investigation launched as student dies after assault”, in Evening Standard, page 12