owner-driver

1. 1.

   a motorist who owns the car that he/she drives

   Broaderdriver

Questions about owner-driver

What does owner-driver mean?

owner-driver means "a motorist who owns the car that he/she drives".

How many syllables are in owner-driver?

owner-driver has 4 syllables and divides as ow-ner--dri-ver under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is owner-driver a common word?

owner-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.