taxi stand

[tulipflower]

Is taxi stand a place where people wait for a taxi as in a bus stop?

 

[GoesStation]

Is taxi stand a place where people wait for a taxi as in a bus stop?

Yes, but there's more to it. In some cities — Paris, for one — cabbies are not allowed to respond to someone hailing a cab. (This doesn't necessarily stop them. I once successfully hailed a cab in Paris, before I knew about the rule.) Clients go to the nearest taxi stand; cabbies know they can get fares there, so they either wait at popular ones or cruise past some, looking for people who are waiting. It's not a bad system once you understand it, as it matches cabs with customers while reducing congestion.

 

[emsr2d2]

Is a taxi stand a place where people wait for a taxi, [STRIKE]as in[/STRIKE] like a bus stop?

Note my corrections above.

 

[PeterCW]

It is called a "taxi rank" or "cab rank" in the UK.

 

[Yankee]

Note my corrections above.

I don't think the article is really necessary and it might help with taxi stand in quotes. And "as at a bus stop" would work.

 

[GoesStation]

Is a taxi stand a place where people wait for a taxi, [STRIKE]as in[/STRIKE] like a bus stop?

I don't think the article is really necessary and it might help with taxi stand in quotes. And "as at a bus stop" would work.

The indefinite article emsr2d2 added is necessary to make the question grammatical. Quotation marks are possible but not necessary.

 

[Yankee]

The indefinite article emsr2d2 added is necessary to make the question grammatical. Quotation marks are possible but not necessary.

I based my response on the following:

A common noun is the generic name for a person, place, or thing (e.g. taxi stand) in a class or group. When common nouns are used in a very broad sense then we can omit the articles before them.