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chauf·feur

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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 Audio Help   (shō'fər, shō-fûr') Pronunciation Key
n.   One employed to drive a private automobile.

v.   chauf·feured, chauf·feur·ing, chauf·feurs

v.   tr.

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

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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.

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chauffeur
noun
1.	a man paid to drive a privately owned car
verb
1.	drive someone in a vehicle [syn: drive around]

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chauffeur [ˈʃəufə, (American) ʃəuˈfə:r] noun

a person employed as a car-driver for a rich or important person

Arabic:	سائِق
Chinese (Simplified):	（汽车）司机
Chinese (Traditional):	(汽車)司機
Czech:	šofér
Danish:	chauffør
Dutch:	chauffeur
Estonian:	autojuht
Finnish:	autonkuljettaja
French:	chauffeur
German:	der Fahrer
Greek:	σοφέρ
Hungarian:	sofőr
Icelandic:	ekill, bílstjóri
Indonesian:	sopir
Italian:	autista

Japanese:	おかかえ運転手
Korean:	고용 운전사
Latvian:	šoferis
Lithuanian:	šoferis, (samdytas) vairuotojas
Norwegian:	(privat)sjåfør
Polish:	szofer
Portuguese (Brazil):	motorista
Portuguese (Portugal):	motorista
Romanian:	şofer
Russian:	(наёмный) шофёр
Slovak:	šofér
Slovenian:	(poklicni) šofer
Spanish:	chófer, chofer
Swedish:	chaufför
Turkish:	şoför

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