Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - chauffeur
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Chauffeur
chauffeur
(chauffeurs, chauffeuring, chauffeured) 1. The chauffeur of a rich or important person is the man or woman who is employed to look after their car and drive them around in it. N-COUNT 2. If you chauffeur someone somewhere, you drive them there in a car, usually as part of your job. It was certainly useful to have her there to chauffeur him around... Caroline had a chauffeured car waiting to take her to London. VERB: V n adv/prep, V-ed, also V n
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I. noun Etymology: French, literally, stoker, from chauffer to heat, from Old French chaufer — more at chafe Date: 1899 a person employed to drive a motor vehicle II. verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: 1917 intransitive verb to do the work of a ~ transitive verb 1. to transport in the manner of a ~ ~s the children to school 2. to operate (as an automobile) as ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. (fem. chauffeuse) a person employed to drive a private or hired motor car. --v.tr. drive (a car or a person) as a chauffeur. Etymology: F, = stoker ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. наемный шофер (легковой машины, особ. частного владельца) 2. водитель (машины) 3. работать шофером (у частного лица); быть (чьим-л) шофером 4. возить (кого-л) she chauffeurs the children to school —- она сама отвозит детей в школу (на своем автомобиле) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~1 n someone whose job is to drive a car for someone else ~2 v 1 to drive a car for someone as your job 2 chauffeur around to drive someone in your car, especially when you do not want to (I seem to spend most of Saturday chauffeuring the kids around.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- 1902, from Fr., "stoker," operator of a steam engine, Fr. nickname for early motorists, from chauffer "to heat," from O.Fr. chaufer (see chafe). The first motor-cars were steam-driven. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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