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Drives
/dɹaɪvz/
Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
📖 Definitions of "Drives"
- 1
Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.
"Crassus had wealth and wit, but Pompey had drive and Caesar as much again."
- 2
Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.
- 3
An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.
- 4
A sustained advance in the face of the enemy to take a strategic objective.
"Napoleon's drive on Moscow was as determined as it was disastrous."
- 1
To provide an impetus for motion or other physical change, to move an object by means of the provision of force thereto.
"You drive nails into wood with a hammer."
- 2
To provide an impetus for a non-physical change, especially a change in one's state of mind.
"My wife's constant harping about the condition of the house threatens to drive me to distraction."
- 3
To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.
- 4
To cause intrinsic motivation through the application or demonstration of force: to impel or urge onward thusly, to compel to move on, to coerce, intimidate or threaten.
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