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test-drive

test-drive is the alternative form of test drive.

Meaning of test drive

Verb

test drive (third-person singular simple present test drives, present participle test driving, simple past test drove, past participle test driven)

  1. (transitive) To take a motor vehicle on the road to assess its quality before purchase.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To establish a preliminary assessment of something through its use.
    Synonyms:
    test-ride

See all 4 meanings of test drive

Forms of test-drive

third-person singular presenttest-drives
present participletest-driving
pasttest-drove
past participletest-driven

Questions about test-drive

What is test-drive the alternative form of?
Test-drive is the alternative form of test drive.

Words near test-drive in the dictionary

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  5. Test Valley
  6. test-drive
  7. test-driven
  8. test-driven development
  9. test-drives
  10. test-driving
  11. test-drove

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Adapted from Wiktionary: test-drive (page history and authors); test drive (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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