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Drives

/dɹaɪvz/

Motivation to do or achieve something; ability coupled with ambition.

📖 Definitions of "Drives"

noun
  1. 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. 2

    Violent or rapid motion; a rushing onward or away; especially, a forced or hurried dispatch of business.

  3. 3

    An act of driving animals forward, as to be captured, hunted etc.

  4. 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."

verb
  1. 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. 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. 3

    To displace either physically or non-physically, through the application of force.

  4. 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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