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rear-wheel drive

rear-wheel drive noun: engine layout in motor vehicles where only the rear wheels are driven.

Noun

rear-wheel drive (uncountable)

  1. Engine layout in motor vehicles where only the rear wheels are driven.
    Synonyms:
    RWD

Synonyms of rear-wheel drive

Antonyms

Questions about rear-wheel drive

What does rear-wheel drive mean?
Rear-wheel drive means engine layout in motor vehicles where only the rear wheels are driven.
What part of speech is rear-wheel drive?
Rear-wheel drive is a noun.

Words near rear-wheel drive in the dictionary

  1. rear-view
  2. rear-view mirror
  3. rear-view mirrors
  4. rear-views
  5. rear-vision mirror
  6. rear-wheel drive
  7. rearbitrate
  8. rearbitrated
  9. rearbitrates
  10. rearbitrating
  11. rearbitration

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