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chauffeur definition

chauf·feur (s̸hō′fər, s̸hō fʉr′)

noun

a person hired to drive a private automobile for someone else

Etymology: Fr, lit., stoker (operator of a steam-driven car) < chauffer, to heat: see chafe

transitive verb, intransitive verb

to act as chauffeur to (someone)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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