designated driver

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   the member of a party who is designated to refrain from alcohol and so is sober when it is time to drive home

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Questions about designated driver

What does designated driver mean?

designated driver means "the member of a party who is designated to refrain from alcohol and so is sober when it is time to drive home".

Is designated driver a common word?

designated driver is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.