drivers

Noun

driver (plural drivers)

1. One who drives something.
   • Luke North was working in the North East District when Harry Patterson the pony driver came by. It was 5.45 o'clock. Luke smelt danger in the air. He walked round the pony to speak with Harry […]2016, John Swain, Digging Up The Pitmen, page 164
   1. A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car, truck, bus, train, forklift, etc.
      • The driver will make an announcement when the trip is nearing its completion.
   2. (slang) A pilot (person who flies aircraft).
   3. A person who drives livestock: a drover.
      • Up until 1872 there was not over 150 miles of railroad in the state [Texas], that was from Galveston to Houston, and a short line from Houston to Brazoria, twenty-five miles in length, and one road from Harrisburg to Alton, three miles east of Columbus. So the cattle driving to Kansas was the only...1920, W.F. Cude, “Trail driving to Kansas and elsewhere”, in J. Marvin Hunter, editor, The Trail Drivers of Texas: Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys and Their Experiences on the Range and on the...
2. Something that drives something else.
   • The character of work is a driver of social change, at the same time that any new forms of work are the result of broader social change.2014, Bridgette Wessels, Exploring Social Change: Process and Context, page 106
   1. A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls.

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