self-drive

[ self-drahyv ]

adjectiveChiefly British.

of, for, designating, or providing a car that is rented for personal use, without a hired driver.

Origin of self-drive

First recorded in 1950–55

Words Nearby self-drive

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How to use self-drive in a sentence

To let one's self drive with or be driven by the upper one is weakness, and ends in destruction.
Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 5. The Romantic School in France | Georg Brandes

British Dictionary definitions for self-drive

self-drive

adjective

denoting or relating to a hired car that is driven by the hirer

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