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driver
OXFORD DICTIONARY
driver, n.
1 (often in comb.) a person who drives a vehicle (bus-driver; engine-driver).
2 Golf a club with a flat face and wooden head, used for driving from the tee.
3 Electr. a device or part of a circuit providing power for output.
4 Mech. a wheel etc. receiving power directly and transmitting motion to other parts.
1 (often in comb.) a person who drives a vehicle (bus-driver; engine-driver).
2 Golf a club with a flat face and wooden head, used for driving from the tee.
3 Electr. a device or part of a circuit providing power for output.
4 Mech. a wheel etc. receiving power directly and transmitting motion to other parts.
Idiom
in the driver's seat in charge.
Derivative
driverless adj.
THESAURUS
driver
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driver
Director
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N traveler, wayfarer, voyager, itinerant, passenger, commuter, tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club, peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler, bird of passage, gadabout, gadling, vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling, loafer, tramp, tramper, vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer, peripatetic, somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee, beach comber, booly, globegirdler, globetrotter, vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker, noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman, trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro, runner, courier, Mercury, Iris, Ariel, comet, pedestrian, walker, foot passenger, cyclist, wheelman, rider, horseman, equestrian, cavalier, jockey, roughrider, trainer, breaker, driver, coachman, whip, Jehu, charioteer, postilion, postboy, carter, wagoner, drayman, cabman, cabdriver, voiturier, vetturino, condottiere, engine driver, stoker, fireman, guard, chauffeur, conductor, engineer, gharry-wallah, gari-wala, hackman, syce, truckman, on the road.For further exploring for "driver" in Webster Dictionary Online