A place where taxis park while waiting to be hired.
‘taxi operators have hailed the decision to reinstate a cab rank at Haymarket station's main entrance’
‘Only at the cab ranks was the customer free to choose his own taxi.’
‘I tried four cab ranks, all of which had at least 100 people lined up waiting in the freezing night for a cab.’
‘I walked up to the cab rank and took my place at the end of the line.’
‘I can understand exactly how people feel when they look along a cab rank and cannot distinguish one cab from another.’
‘Walking out of a nightclub into a taxi was no longer an option after they voted to outlaw unofficial cab ranks outside licensed premises.’
‘For 10 years the service has been operating without a problem next to the second busiest cab rank and bus stop in Lismore.’
‘Another taxi driver told the Guardian there had been a rise in tension at cab ranks in the town because of an increasing number of drivers and a decreasing number of jobs.’
‘Both worked at the cab rank in the town.’
‘He shot a fellow cab driver with whom he had been in dispute over fare stealing, at the cab rank in Duke Street.’
‘Use the better regulated taxis from authorized cab ranks.’
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