A taxi or minicab hired through a ridesharing app.
Used in a Sentence
rideshare
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for rideshare.
Editorial note
Even make your own non-discriminatory rideshare service, but if it's not sustainable, don't force the cost on others.
Examples13
Definitions4
Parts of speech2
Quick take
A taxi or minicab hired through a ridesharing app.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of rideshare gathered in one view.
A ridesharing arrangement in which people travel together.
(intransitive) To participate in ridesharing.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for rideshare.
noun
A taxi or minicab hired through a ridesharing app.
noun
A ridesharing arrangement in which people travel together.
verb
(intransitive) To participate in ridesharing.
verb
(transitive, intransitive) To work or gig as a rideshare driver.
Example sentences
Even make your own non-discriminatory rideshare service, but if it's not sustainable, don't force the cost on others.
Key request was a native mobile app version, and, confusingly, a Craig's List like rideshare social matching service.
This isn't Google creating am uber rival, it is quelling competition for the rideshare services that exist for co-commuting.
These rideshare outfits face the same government interference in every single country they operate in.
This whole rideshare thing was just to get their foot in the door.
I'm not saying there is no potential social appeal to rideshare whatsoever, but like parent, I'm guessing it's slim.
Free might be a stretch, but I'd bet that we'll see these types of ads when using rideshare services in the very near future.
(Background check, constant ratings?) And if you take issue with Uber for other reasons (shady recruiting practices come to mind), there are other rideshare services that do not have those problems.
As I pointed out in the thread on Google's RideWidth, instead of (or in addition to) rideshare companies why can't my municpality license any individual who applies to pickup people on the street who want a ride, and charge them.
But self-insuring is inefficient, so drivers should have been demanding more money to cover that risk than they would need to pay an insurer to join a shared risk pool, so if anything this would allow rideshare services to lower the rates they pay.
And the economics are already there ($6 probably gets you a long way is a Lyft rideshare right now) Leap could pivot to support that new model but I think super large vehicles on fixed routes is going the way of the dinosaur.
I really do not get this argument - the feedback and ongoing quality checks by the rideshare companies is necessarily more immediate and more tied to actual everyday conditions and performance than the spot checks that can be performed by even the most scrupulous and well intentioned government agency.
Quote examples
Even so, I've thought about driving for Lyft in my off hours; my insurance company is rideshare-friendly and I could probably pull in a few hundred dollars every month in "fun money" and have fun doing it.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use rideshare in a sentence?
Even make your own non-discriminatory rideshare service, but if it's not sustainable, don't force the cost on others.
What does rideshare mean?
A taxi or minicab hired through a ridesharing app.
What part of speech is rideshare?
rideshare is commonly used as noun, verb.