'taxi' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a car that you hire to take you from one place to another, usually in exchange for money. Example sentence: I need to get to the airport quickly, so I'm going to take a taxi.
At 1.26pm, by which time the crowds had been waiting for about two hours, the 53-year-old Oscar winner and the 36-year-old barrister emerged from their taxi and, after briefly waving, went inside the city hall.
The Delhi transport department has stated that only six registered radio taxi companies would now be allowed to operate in Delhi.
A taxi driver contracted to international online cab firm Uber and detained on charges of raping a female passenger last weekend in the Indian capital Delhi is a serial sexual offender with dozens of criminal complaints registered against him, local media have claimed.
Back in Georgetown, waiting for a taxi to the airport, we do a last-minute dash around the street stalls: all I salvage are an oil painting of the Kaieteur Falls (a rather Surrealist interpretation), a shell necklace, a woven basket and as much El Dorado rum as possible, before the plane carries us to a connecting flight at Barbados, and the waters change from brown to a shock of bright blue.
When Edgecombe showed up in a taxi at Ward's flat at 17 Wimpole Mews in Marylebone, she refused to see him and threw a £1 note out of the window for the cab fare.
Some local guys run an informal water taxi service, which you can contact with a bit of asking around.
We grabbed a shared taxi and I tried to talk to the man next to me, but he looked at me blankly.
And then Ray Davies talked about being lonely, and taxi lights shining bright in the busy city, and it made me even more apprehensive about this dizzy, busy place.
Smiling nicely at several attractive women who seemed strangely uninterested in having sex with him, Bond shuffled his way towards the front of the taxi queue.
JODIE FOSTER 1962- (US) Big break: Taxi Driver (1976) A short life: Disney-trained 13-year-old shocked audiences everywhere as Iris, the child prostitute.
In 2000, Eleanor Maguire at University College London (UCL) and her colleagues discovered that part of a brain region called the hippocampus gets bigger in London taxi drivers with years of navigating the city.
