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ride - sharing vs ridesharing

Both "ride-sharing" and "ridesharing" are correct, but "ridesharing" is more commonly used. The two words have been merged into one to form "ridesharing" as a compound noun.

Last updated: March 29, 2024 • 925 views

ride - sharing

This is a correct construction, but less commonly used than "ridesharing".

This phrase is used to refer to the practice of sharing a car journey with others, especially by means of a mobile app.
  • In China, on Didi, the ride-sharing platform, 11 million rides taken every day.
  • So you have to trust the idea of ride-sharing is safe and worth trying.
  • There has been a lot of tension between the cabbies and the ride-sharing guys the last few months.
  • Meanwhile, protesters across Europe have called for a clampdown on Uber's ride-sharing service and restrictions on Airbnb's apartment-sharing service, and the French Senate is considering "search neutrality" obligations.
  • Let's get a ride-sharing service, right?
  • I am so sick of hearing about app-based ride sharing!
  • First off is the lift car, a ride-sharing company out of San Francisco.
  • At the start, we all ride together - sharing the camaraderie and enthusiasm.
  • We can use some smart IT to enhance transit and enable car sharing and ride sharing.
  • I didn't think I'd be sharing the ride to lunch with you.
  • And so when I think about the future, people will be thinking that sharing the ride with someone is this incredibly great social event out of their day.
  • Now, you do understand the three of you will be sharing the ride home.
  • New mobility services, such as car sharing, car-pooling, public bike sharing services, park & ride, bike & ride, etc.
  • The Polish government is so grateful that we're sharing these photos with them that they've offered you a ride to the airport.
  • When I came out, my best friend stopped sharing sodas with me... stopped giving me rides to school, de-friended me on Facebook... and then moved to Germany.
  • Initiative 27 (Travel information) involves promoting 'awareness of the availability of alternatives to individual conventional transport (drive less, walk and cycle, car sharing, park and ride, intelligent ticketing, etc.)'.
  • It's about sharing responsibility, sharing accountability.
  • It must also mean sharing the burden, sharing the responsibility.
  • Rachel says sharing's great and supposedly...
  • She's thought of everything and sharing nothing.

Alternatives:

  • carpooling
  • car sharing
  • ride-hailing
  • shared mobility
  • shared transportation

ridesharing

This is the more commonly used form of the phrase.

This phrase is used to refer to the practice of sharing a car journey with others, especially by means of a mobile app.
  • And I think that we can apply social networks and online payment systems to completely change how people feel about ridesharing and make that trip much more efficient.
  • So, here's another example. This company is GoLoco - I'm launching it in about three weeks - and I hope to do for ridesharing what I did for car sharing.
  • and I hope to do for ridesharing what I did for car sharing.
  • The directive should also cover consumers' rights (e.g. timesharing).
  • Timesharing is a little further off in the future.
  • Hardly anyone knows what the subject of real estate timesharing is actually about.
  • A Party may require all airlines involved in codesharing arrangements to hold the appropriate underlying route authority.
  • An additional channel of a somewhat different nature is the «risksharing channel».
  • Mr President, I too will try to help in this miracle "timesharing" between the panel of Commissioners and MEPs.
  • Timesharing rights in rem and contracts (cf. point 4.6 above)
  • This mentality of traveling to and timesharing large, expensive healthcare systems actually began in 1787.
  • The Parties shall require all airlines in such codesharing arrangements to ensure that passengers are fully informed of the identity of the operator and the mode of transportation for each segment of the journey.
  • provide service through codesharing consistent with paragraph 3 of Article 13 (Commercial framework) of this Agreement;
  • They have a timesharing condominium.

Alternatives:

  • carpooling
  • car sharing
  • ride-hailing
  • shared mobility
  • shared transportation

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