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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for chauffeur
Noun
  • Switch on headlights - Even during daylight hours, using headlights can enhance visibility and signal your presence to other drivers.
    STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Mar. 2025
  • As a driver in Delhi put it to me, the wedding felt like a slap in the face to India’s poor.
    Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2025
Verb
  • In a separate incident Tuesday morning, a Southwest Airlines flight nearly missed a collision with a private jet that was taxiing on the runway at Chicago’s Midway Airport.
    David Matthews, New York Daily News, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Video shows Southwest flight 2504 from Omaha coming in for a landing at the airport, then quickly aborting to avoid a potential collision with the business jet that was taxiing across the runway.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • The outlet said the issues were so serious that boom operators were having to use shadows cast on the receiver aircraft to guide the fueling device into the receptacle, an operation made more difficult on cloudy days.
    Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Now that the leaf drop has dropped off, the Claw tractors and their operators have returned to their normal duties like running the city’s Household Junk Pickup program, which allows customers to schedule pickups of large items up to twice a year.
    Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025

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“Chauffeur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/chauffeur. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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