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left-hand drive

left-hand drive adjective: describes a motor vehicle with the steering wheel on the left-hand side, designed for use in countries such as the Americas (with a few small exceptions), South Korea and continental Europe where cars normally drive on the right side of the road.

Adjective

left-hand drive (not comparable)

  1. Describes a motor vehicle with the steering wheel on the left-hand side, designed for use in countries such as the Americas (with a few small exceptions), South Korea and continental Europe where cars normally drive on the right side of the road.
    Synonyms:
    LHD

Synonyms of left-hand drive

Questions about left-hand drive

What does left-hand drive mean?
Left-hand drive means describes a motor vehicle with the steering wheel on the left-hand side, designed for use in countries such as the Americas (with a few small exceptions), South Korea and continental Europe where cars normally drive on the right side of the road.
What part of speech is left-hand drive?
Left-hand drive is an adjective.

Words near left-hand drive in the dictionary

  1. left-footer
  2. left-footers
  3. left-half
  4. left-halves
  5. left-hand
  6. left-hand drive
  7. left-hand path
  8. left-handed
  9. left-handed anti-neutrino
  10. left-handed anti-neutrinos
  11. left-handed cigarette

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