Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗A car ride requested using the mobile application Uber. · The vehicle used for the ride. · One's passenger or driver on Uber.
To travel by means of a mobile app-based ridesharing service, particularly but not necessarily Uber. · To work or be employed as a driver for Uber.
The company's name is from uber, from German über (“above, over”), as in “above all the rest (of the competition),” a principle the founders wanted to build upon.
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- Derivation mentionüberde · above, over
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