chauffeur
noun/ˈʃəʊfə(r)/
/ʃəʊˈfɜːr/
- a person whose job is to drive a car, especially for somebody rich or important
- Her chauffeur was waiting in the street outside.
- They were met at the airport by a chauffeur in uniform.
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by car or lorryc1, Jobsc1- The newly-weds set off in a chauffeur-driven limousine.
- He needs someone to act as bodyguard and chauffeur.
- Her former chauffeur sold his story to a newspaper.
Oxford Collocations Dictionarychauffeur + verb- drive (somebody/something)
- chauffeur-driven
Word Originlate 19th cent. (in the general sense ‘motorist’): from French, literally ‘stoker’ (by association with steam engines), from chauffer ‘to heat’.Definitions on the go
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