To compel to move:
Planned, usually long-lasting, effort to achieve something; ability coupled with ambition, determination, and motivation.
Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again.
From Middle English driven, from Old English drīfan (“to drive, force, move”), from Proto-West Germanic *drīban, from Proto-Germanic *drībaną (“to drive”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰreybʰ- (“to driv...
Select a language to see translations
to drive twenty thousand head of cattle from Texas to the Kansas railheads; to drive sheep out of a field
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; (especially) a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
The Murdstonian drive in business.
An act of driving (prompting) animals forward.
Are you all ready?’ he cried, and set off towards the dead ash where the drive would begin.