London's formidable black taxis enjoy a lucrative near monopoly over plying for hire on the capital's streets.
Financial and business terms. 2012.
ply for hire — ply for ˈhire/ˈtrade/ˈbusiness idiom (BrE) to look for customers, passengers, etc. in order to do business • taxis plying for hire outside the theatre Main entry: ↑plyidiom … Useful english dictionary
ply for hire/business/trade — Brit : to try to get customers or business Taxis ply for hire/business outside the train station. The company is plying for trade in America. • • • Main Entry: ↑ply … Useful english dictionary
ply for hire/trade — ply for business/hire/trade ► COMMERCE to try to get customers for your business in a public place, for example, as a taxi driver, by driving around or waiting in a regular place: »London s formidable black taxis enjoy a lucrative near monopoly… … Financial and business terms
ply for trade — ply for ˈhire/ˈtrade/ˈbusiness idiom (BrE) to look for customers, passengers, etc. in order to do business • taxis plying for hire outside the theatre Main entry: ↑plyidiom … Useful english dictionary
ply for business — ply for ˈhire/ˈtrade/ˈbusiness idiom (BrE) to look for customers, passengers, etc. in order to do business • taxis plying for hire outside the theatre Main entry: ↑plyidiom … Useful english dictionary
ply for business/hire/trade — ► COMMERCE to try to get customers for your business in a public place, for example, as a taxi driver, by driving around or waiting in a regular place: »London s formidable black taxis enjoy a lucrative near monopoly over plying for hire on the… … Financial and business terms
ply for business — ply for business/hire/trade ► COMMERCE to try to get customers for your business in a public place, for example, as a taxi driver, by driving around or waiting in a regular place: »London s formidable black taxis enjoy a lucrative near monopoly… … Financial and business terms
ply for trade — ply for business/hire/trade ► COMMERCE to try to get customers for your business in a public place, for example, as a taxi driver, by driving around or waiting in a regular place: »London s formidable black taxis enjoy a lucrative near monopoly… … Financial and business terms
hire — 1 verb (T) 1 BrE to pay money to borrow something for a period of hours or days; let 1 (11), rent 1 (3) AmE: Let s hire a car for the weekend. see borrow 2 a) to employ someone for a short time to do a job for you: I m hiring a private detective… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
ply — 1 verb past tense and past participle plied 1 (intransitive always + adv/prep, transitive) literary if a vehicle or boat plies between two places or across a place it makes that journey regularly (+ between/across etc): Small fishing boats plied… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
