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chauf⋅feur

  [shoh-fer, shoh-fur]
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–noun
1. a person employed to drive a private automobile or limousine for the owner.
2. a person employed to drive a car or limousine that transports paying passengers.
–verb (used with object)
3. to drive (a vehicle) as a chauffeur.
4. to transport by car: Saturday mornings I have to chauffeur the kids to their music lessons.
–verb (used without object)
5. to work as a chauffeur: He chauffeured for a time right after the war.
Origin:
1895–1900; < F, equiv. to chauff(er) to heat (see chafe ) + -eur -eur
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chauf·feur   (shō'fər, shō-fûr')   
n.  One employed to drive a private automobile.
v.   chauf·feured, chauf·feur·ing, chauf·feurs

v.   tr.

  1. To serve as a driver for (another).

  2. To transport in (a motor vehicle); drive: chauffeured the guests around town.

v.   intr.
To serve as a driver for another.

[French, stoker, from chauffer, to heat, stoke, from Old French chaufer; see chafe.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

chauffeur 
1899, originally "a motorist," from Fr., lit. "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. Sense of "professional or paid driver of a private motor car" is from 1902. The verb is first attested 1917.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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