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UK
/ʃəʊfˈɜː/
]
[ US /ˈʃoʊfɝ, ʃoʊˈfɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈʃoʊfɝ, ʃoʊˈfɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a man paid to drive a privately owned car
VERB
- drive someone in a vehicle
How To Use chauffeur In A Sentence
- When Schmidt tapped the chauffeur's arm, the man pressed a button that raised a glass panel at his back.
- He chauffeured her to her 9 a.m. appointment at Avalon Spa.
- With a brief word from his chauffeur, they were allowed admittance.
- ‘Statistics show that children who walk, cycle or catch the bus to school arrive fresher and more alert than those who are chauffeured to the classroom,’ she said.
- The Defendant engaged in frequent and expensive foreign travel with his wife, went out to numerous restaurants, and made lavish use of chauffeur driven limousines all at the Company's expense.
- The sound of a car stopping outside the hotel drew me to the window as the waitress left me, and I was in time to see an old gentleman with a long white beard step from the interior of a Daimler landaulette, the door of which was held open by a dignified chauffeur, whose attire seemed to consist mainly of brass buttons. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
- He enjoyed the trappings of power, such as a chauffeur-driven car and bodyguards.
- Participants are driven by chauffeur to and from the aquarium, where they are given instruction on basic scuba equipment. Times, Sunday Times
- After his hospital visit, Mr Brown was chauffeured to open the Feltham Skills Centre, which opened its doors in September and already serves 300 students.
- One of the chauffeurs, an elderly, apple-cheeked man, had been the Forrest coachman. DARE CALL IT TREASON