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chauffeur

[shoh-fer, shoh-fur] / ˈʃoʊ fər, ʃoʊˈfɜr /
NOUN
driver
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The man needs a chauffeur more than group therapy.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 4, 2026

His parents worked for a wealthy family, his mother as a cook and his father as a chauffeur.

From BBC Mar. 17, 2026

Others chauffeur children to school, or shop for families who are afraid to venture into public.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 9, 2026

The actor brought Lee the script, a reimagined take on a novel that once inspired a 1963 Akira Kurosawa film about a class divide involving a kidnapping, a businessman and a chauffeur.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 20, 2025

Thursday morning, we are on our way to Oscar’s house for class, Sam and Mundín and I. His chauffeur has the day off, so Mr. Washburn is driving.

From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez

Items Manifold listed at the time included the use of chauffeurs and private jets, and blocks of tickets to Wimbledon tennis matches purchased for employees and clients.

From The Wall Street Journal May 29, 2026

"They paid for all my hotels, chauffeurs... to allow me to perform the job that I did," she said.

From BBC Apr. 13, 2026

John Lennon, who in life was such a terrible driver that he hired chauffeurs for the safety of those around him, is in command of the main spaceship.

From Salon Dec. 4, 2023

Once again, it was the chauffeurs who took the rap.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 8, 2022

She and her aunt picked their way across the cobblestones, avoiding the horses with their brisk clippity clops and the boxy black cars with chauffeurs in patent-brimmed caps.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García

Besides security services at home and during personal travel, that can include elaborate home-alarm systems, bodyguards or company cars chauffeured by specially trained drivers.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 6, 2026

Nearly every Saturday morning my mother ferried me to and from synagogue; in the evening she chauffeured me to whichever hotel ballroom was hosting the reception.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 19, 2025

And when boarding is set to commence, guests are chauffeured in a BMW directly to the aircraft door.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 11, 2024

Gray, whose portfolio includes sport, has been under fire after it emerged he had been chauffeured to six football matches at Hampden since becoming a minister, four of which included the team he supports.

From BBC Nov. 17, 2024

After the welcoming ceremony and a tour of the city’s recently modernized ports and boulevards, the chauffeured car turned on to Paissandu Street, famous for the lanky royal palm trees that lined each side.

From "Death on the River of Doubt" by Samantha Seiple

Cars and drivers are typically pitched to shareholders as a security expense, not a chauffeuring perk.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 25, 2026

During a chance encounter chauffeuring François Truffaut around, the master auteur told the desperate factotum that he had an eye for directing.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2025

The technology went from a perpetual “six months away” to chauffeuring masses of riders this year as both companies gathered experience in pilot cities and used that knowledge to expand to others.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2023

Among a circle of nondriving peers, Schuessler’s kids love to be behind the wheel, so they often find themselves chauffeuring carloads of older friends.

From Washington Post Feb. 21, 2023

“More money in chauffeuring and dog-sitting,” she mumbled.

From "Millionaires for the Month" by Stacey McAnulty




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