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private car

private car noun: a car (automobile) that is for personal use and owned privately.

private car: a car (automobile) that is for personal use and owned privately
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Noun

private car (plural private cars)

  1. A car (automobile) that is for personal use and owned privately.
  2. (US) A railroad passenger car that is either privately owned or used privately, or both.
    • In the days before televised press conferences, or debates between Presidential contenders, the railroads carried the politicians to the people. Here, President Truman addresses a crowd from the verandah of his private car, at Sacramento during the 1952 campaign.1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, →ISBN, page 11, photo caption

Forms of private car

pluralprivate cars

Questions about private car

What does private car mean?
Private car means a car (automobile) that is for personal use and owned privately.
What part of speech is private car?
Private car is a noun.
What is the plural of private car?
The plural of private car is private cars.

Words near private car in the dictionary

  1. private branch exchange
  2. private branch exchanges
  3. private brand
  4. private candidate
  5. private candidates
  6. private car
  7. private cars
  8. private cost
  9. private costs
  10. private credit
  11. private detective

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