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driver's seat

noun

the seat from which a vehicle is operated.
a position of power, dominance, control, or superiority:
After the election the Democrats were back in the driver's seat.

First recorded in 1920–25

Suddenly the cab starts moving with no one in the drivers seat and we hit the car in front of us.

In the meantime, Jarrold had taken the drivers seat of the car and Cummings sat beside him.

Bobbins mounted to the drivers seat and gathered up the ribbons.

That young man yet sat on the drivers seat of the taxi; he was too paralyzed to move as he watched them approach.

The doors were in front, on either side of the drivers seat.

Here the drivers seat was behind the carriage on a level with the roof.

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