power-driven

1. 1.

   powered by a motor

   “a power-driven hand tool”

   Similarpowered

Questions about power-driven

What does power-driven mean?

power-driven means "powered by a motor".

How many syllables are in power-driven?

power-driven has 4 syllables and divides as po-wer--dri-ven 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 power-driven a common word?

power-driven 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.