cab·stand

(kăb′stănd′)

A place where taxicabs wait for passengers.

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cabstand

(ˈkæbˌstænd)

a taxi rank

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cab•stand

(ˈkæbˌstænd)

n.

a place where taxicabs wait to be hired.

[1855–60]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun

cabstand - a place where taxis park while awaiting customers; "in England the place where taxis wait to be hired is called a `taxi rank'"

taxi rank, taxistand

stand - the position where a thing or person stands

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References in classic literature

Katherine's Dock House on Tower Hill, and he informed us that he had a special affection for the view of that historic locality, with the Gardens to the left, the front of the Mint to the right, the miserable tumble-down little houses farther away, a cabstand, boot- blacks squatting on the edge of the pavement and a pair of big policemen gazing with an air of superiority at the doors of the Black Horse public-house across the road.

Katherine's Dock House, the very steps from which he had some six weeks before surveyed the cabstand, the buildings, the policemen, the boot-blacks, the paint, gilt, and plateglass of the Black Horse, with the eye of a Conqueror.

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Britain's first experiment in switching off traffic lights started in September at the busy and complex Cabstand Junction in Portishead, near Bristol.

PO-LIGHT SOCIETY! Traffic signals turn-off hailed a success as drivers show courtesy and flow improves

Goodbye pool hall, cabstand, pawnshop, and storm door company.

Goodbye Tuscaloosa

After I left, there were hordes of people waiting at the cabstand near the Pantheon.

Across the Great Divide

His cabstand was on the south-west corner of Portage and Main, across the street from the Queen's Hotel, but he also had a stable near Portage and Garry, two blocks further west.

The first cabstand was established in 1880 on the site that Dave Storey first picked out at the south-west corner of Portage and Main.

Cab trade in Winnipeg, 1871-1910

Martin Scorsese pew up that way too--he sat at the window a lot as a kid and watched the cabstands where all the mobsters were.

Kicking with Johnny Knoxville: he brought sexual anarchy into America's living rooms with Jackass. Now he's a sex saint with three gay bear apostles in John Waters's A Dirty Shame. Meet a Southern man without inhibitions

A loathed monopoly, Diamond controlled most of the cabstands and half of the cabs in Montreal.

Continuity and discontinuity in Canadian cab history

Hence the major outfits paid for strategically located cabstands: e.g., outside the main door of the Canadian National or Canadian Pacific railway depots or one of the elite hotels like the McLaren in Winnipeg.

Canadian taxi wars, 1925-1950