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A place where taxicabs wait for passengers.


a taxi rank



a place where taxicabs wait to be hired.
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Noun1.cabstand - a place where taxis park while awaiting customers; "in England the place where taxis wait to be hired is called a `taxi rank'"
stand - the position where a thing or person stands
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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.
Goodbye pool hall, cabstand, pawnshop, and storm door company.
After I left, there were hordes of people waiting at the cabstand near the Pantheon.
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.
A loathed monopoly, Diamond controlled most of the cabstands and half of the cabs in Montreal.
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.