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chauffeur

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ʃɒˈfɜː

Definitions

  1. A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine).
  2. A person employed to drive a private motor car or a hired car of executive or luxury class (like a limousine)
  3. A brigand belonging to the bands who, around 1793, pillaged, burned, and killed in parts of France.
  4. The driver of a fire truck.
  5. The driver of a fire truck
  6. To be, or act as, a chauffeur (driver of a motor car)
  7. To transport (someone) in a motor vehicle

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Examples

“He fell into a reverie, a most dangerous state of mind for a chauffeur, since a fall into reverie on the part of a driver may mean a fall into a ravine on the part of the machine.”
Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this 50-inch screen, money-green leather sofa Got two rides, a limousine with a chauffeur
“I can make money from the comfort of my sofa / So much drive, now I gotta get a chauffeur

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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