chauffeur 1 of 2

as in driver
a person whose job is to drive people around in a car told the chauffeur to pull the limousine up to the hotel's front entrance

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chauffeur

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verb

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Recent Examples of chauffeur
Noun
And don’t forget to take advantage of the airline’s chauffeur service: all first-class and business-class passengers receive complimentary black car pickup from within a 50 mile radius of the airport. Brad Japhe, Travel + Leisure, 22 Jan. 2025 Of the few items that remained at the scene of the crime were the rope and tape used to bind and gag the employees and a chauffeur’s cap. Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
Arriving via the Austrian village of Lech, we were quickly chauffeured to our secluded mountain retreat. Stacey Wreathall, Travel + Leisure, 4 Dec. 2024 People who couldn’t afford to hire a guide and be chauffeured comfortably in a Mackenzie boat, or who didn’t want to, arrived with dinghies and johnboats lashed to the roofs of old yellow buses. David Quammen, Outside Online, 29 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for chauffeur
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Noun
  • And while safe-haven demand is certainly a driver, there’s another potential catalyst that could send prices soaring even higher: the revaluation of America’s gold reserves.
    Frank Holmes, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2025
  • The car's handling became a bigger problem, with the driver reporting that the vehicle felt loose during a caution.
    Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • But of those that happen, many are not catastrophic – including those involving turbulence or collisions between planes taxiing on the ground – leaving flight attendants in a position to utilize their training.
    Dakin Andone, CNN, 20 Feb. 2025
  • The wing of the aircraft struck the tug vehicle as the plane was taxiing to the gate, police said.
    Bonny Chu, Fox News, 2 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Its operators aim to handle 80 million passengers per year, with the first phase due to open in 2035.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty Images Trump Media & Technology Group shares were down about 1% in extended trading on Friday after the operator of Truth Social released its 2024 results.
    Jordan Novet, CNBC, 15 Feb. 2025

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“Chauffeur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chauffeur. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.

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