Chauffeur vs. Driver — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chauffeur and Driver
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Chauffeur
A chauffeur is a person employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle, especially a luxury vehicle such as a large sedan or limousine. A woman employed to drive a passenger motor vehicle is a chauffeuse.
Driver
One that drives, as the operator of a motor vehicle.
Chauffeur
One employed to drive a private automobile.
Driver
A tool, such as a screwdriver or hammer, that is used for imparting forceful pressure on another object.
Chauffeur
To serve as a driver for (another).
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Driver
A machine part that transmits motion or power to another part.
Chauffeur
To transport in (a motor vehicle); drive
Chauffeured the guests around town.
Driver
A piece of software that enables a computer to communicate with a specific hardware device. Also called device driver.
Chauffeur
To serve as a driver for another.
Driver
A golf club with a wide head and a long shaft, used for making long shots from the tee.
Chauffeur
A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
Driver
(Nautical) A jib-headed spanker.
Chauffeur
(firefighting) The driver of a fire truck.
Driver
One who drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
Chauffeur
(intransitive) To be, or act as, a chauffeur driver of a motor car.
Driver
Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb drive.
Chauffeur
(transitive) To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle.
Driver
A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus.
The requirement that every moving vehicle or combination of vehicles shall have a driver is deemed to be satisfied while the vehicle is using an automated driving system which complies with domestic technical regulations, and any applicable international legal instrument, ... and domestic legislation governing operation.
Chauffeur
Brigands in bands, who, about 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France; - so called because they used to burn the feet of their victims to extort money.
Driver
A person who drives some other vehicle.
Chauffeur
One who manages the running of an automobile or limousine; esp., the paid operator of a motor vehicle.
Driver
A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
Chauffeur
A man paid to drive a privately owned car
Driver
(computing) A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.
Chauffeur
Drive someone in a vehicle
Driver
(golf) A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance.
Driver
(nautical) a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars.
Driver
A mallet.
Driver
A tamping iron.
Driver
A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
Driver
A screwdriver.
Driver
One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.
Driver
The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a any vehicle.
Driver
An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.
Driver
A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:
Driver
The driving wheel of a locomotive.
Driver
The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.
Driver
An implement used for driving;
Driver
The operator of a motor vehicle
Driver
Someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
Driver
A golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
Driver
(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device
Driver
A golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee
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