chauffeur
verb/ˈʃəʊfə(r)/
/ʃəʊˈfɜːr/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they chauffeur | /ˈʃəʊfə(r)/ /ʃəʊˈfɜːr/ |
| he / she / it chauffeurs | /ˈʃəʊfəz/ /ʃəʊˈfɜːrz/ |
| past simple chauffeured | /ˈʃəʊfəd/ /ʃəʊˈfɜːrd/ |
| past participle chauffeured | /ˈʃəʊfəd/ /ʃəʊˈfɜːrd/ |
| -ing form chauffeuring | /ˈʃəʊfərɪŋ/ /ʃəʊˈfɜːrɪŋ/ |
- chauffeur somebody to drive somebody in a car, usually as your job
- He was chauffeured to all his meetings.
- a chauffeured limousine
- With young children, you spend a lot of your time chauffeuring them around to all their various activities.
Word Originlate 19th cent. (in the general sense ‘motorist’): from French, literally ‘stoker’ (by association with steam engines), from chauffer ‘to heat’.
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