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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
motorist
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
other
▪ Said I was distracting other motorists.
▪ On a busy road, though, an extra car adds to congestion and so reduces the benefits other motorists are enjoying.
▪ The bays should ensure other motorists visiting the street will avoid the most convenient parking space for a disabled resident.
▪ Problem Surveys suggest that other motorists could do much more to make life easier for disabled drivers.
▪ Several other motorists had near misses.
▪ Like other motorists ahead of me, I drove past.
passing
▪ These shy creatures may sometimes be seen and have been known to stray on to the road, startling passing motorists.
▪ He died in the arms of a passing motorist.
▪ He was taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital by a passing motorist and is being treated for leg and arm wounds.
▪ Sam stood guard over his blood-covered friend and tried in vain to flag down passing motorists.
▪ The gunman had stopped shooting and made off after a passing motorist arrived on the scene, the court heard.
▪ And there he was he was held up and shown to passing motorists.
▪ Her attacker ran off when a passing motorist stopped.
▪ The five soldiers prove, as always, to be quite a spectacle for passing motorists.
speeding
▪ Read in studio Police are parading a range of race and rally cars in an attempt to make speeding motorists slow down.
▪ Traffic officers claim the new gun can't be picked up by speeding motorists who use radar detectors to avoid being caught.
■ VERB
drive
▪ Lights risk: Police say they recorded 170 motorists driving through red traffic lights in York in just one month.
▪ Last week, police arrested a motorist in Houston for driving a car with Republic of Texas license plates.
▪ Altogether six vehicles were involved and police say some motorists may have been driving to close.
▪ Alternatively, it is claimed, such a system would be inequitable since poorer motorists would be driven off the roads.
▪ Mr Foster pleaded for motorists to drive more carefully and called for increased police surveillance to tackle speeding drivers.
▪ But after flagging down passing motorists, Mrs Fenton drove off in a friend's car.
▪ But the police blame the tailbacks on motorists driving too fast through the contraflow and causing accidents.
kill
▪ It kills more than runaway motorists and the luckless in their way, too.
▪ A 5.4-magnitude earthquake hits southern Oregon, killing a motorist whose pickup was hit by falling rock.
pass
▪ They have taken to increasingly seductive gimmicks, to the point of thumbing down passing motorists.
▪ Smiling residents stroll along a cozy, old-fashioned street; the police chief stops and chats with passing motorists.
▪ Peter Hardcastle of Ridgehill, Dartmouth, was taken to hospital after passing motorists gave him first aid.
▪ And the extra production costs will undoubtedly have to be passed on to the motorist.
▪ Meandering wildly, I provoked yells of annoyance and remonstration from passing motorists.
▪ After receiving a donation from a passing motorist, one of the beggars enters a nearby Burger King to buy food.
stop
▪ This does not stop motorists damaging the environment but only stops them destroying it quite so violently.
▪ Police are stopping motorists who use the road in their search for clues.
▪ Residents have fought a long campaign to stop some motorists using the roads as a race track.
use
▪ But motorists using it today had mixed opinions.
▪ The closure prevents motorists from using the street to travel between Carlsbad and Oceanside.
▪ Traffic officers claim the new gun can't be picked up by speeding motorists who use radar detectors to avoid being caught.
▪ Attempts to persuade motorists to use buses have failed.
▪ Police are stopping motorists who use the road in their search for clues.
▪ Residents have fought a long campaign to stop some motorists using the roads as a race track.
warn
▪ Automobile Association spokesman Terry McAllister warned motorists to reduce speed in the wet and windy weather.
▪ Signs posted along the narrow road that leads through sloping pastures to the cliff-framed beach warn motorists to watch out for birds.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Motorists are developing the habit of buying a new car every other year.
Motorists in the mountains will need tire chains this weekend.
▪ Safety needs to be improved, not only for motorists but also for pedestrians.
▪ The countryside is being destroyed for the benefit of the motorist.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A motorist on Interstate 70 near New York Mountain had reported seeing smoke coming from the slope last week.
▪ About 1,200 motorists were also stopped for speeding in the crackdown.
▪ Also patron of bachelors, bus drivers, motorists, porters, and travelers.
▪ Also patron of bachelors, bus drivers, motorists, travelers, truck drivers; he is invoked against nightmares.
▪ She managed to climb out of the chilly water and flag down a motorist on the Embarcadero.
▪ Thames Valley Police welcome the campaign as more effective than chasing motorists through the courts.
▪ Their mutilated bodies were found by a motorist on Monday.
▪ This will help motorists to see you if you are walking after dark.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
motorist

"motor-car driver," 1896, from motor- + -ist. Earlier as a name for electric railway drivers (1889). Other early alternatives included motorneer.\n\n"Motorer" we have given our reasons for rejecting, and there only remains "motorist" or a compound like "motor-man" or "motor-driver." Mr. C.P.G. Scott, the etymologist of the Century Dictionary, strongly favors "motor-man" or "motor-driver," though he would not object to "motorist" and prefers it above any other single word. \n["Electric Power," October 1889]

Wiktionary
motorist

n. one who drives a motor vehicle

WordNet
motorist

n. someone who drives (or travels in) an automobile [syn: automobilist]

Wikipedia
Motorist (disambiguation)

A motorist is a person who is driving a motorized vehicle.

Motorist may also refer to:

  • The '?' Motorist, a 1906 British silent film

Usage examples of "motorist".

Nick was shadowed and closed, the dim light from oncoming motorists blurring his sharp nose and thin face.

Pomeroy Gaverdine, the idiot savant son of Elton and Gladys Gaverdine, was practicing his magic act outside the Body Shoppe to amuse the stalled motorists, shaking white doves from billowy silken scarves the color of bright Hawaiian pineapple slices.

For February, it was a cop even beefier than Treen helping a stranded motorist change a tire.

Then, by midday, after the Rocky Mountain sunshine has a chance to put a nice transparent glaze on the ice, the casting room would be booked nonstop with broken bones from pedestrians who had failed to navigate on the ice, and motorists who thought antilock brakes could stop on Teflon.

When one of the new nurses leaned over his chair to adjust the volume on the television set, old Matthew Meadows reached up and squeezed her left breast like an old-time motorist honking the bulb of the horn on his vehicle.

At Rockfish Gap there is a tollbooth manned by rangers where motorists have to pay an entrance fee and thru-hikers have to acquire a backcountry hiking permit.

Ford was a third-rate trainer who by general consensus was as honest and trustworthy as a pickpocket at Aintree, and he trained in a hollow in the Downs at a spot where any passing motorist could glance down into his yard.

Judd slalomed past shocked motorists who had come to a standstill, and disappeared down an alley.

Motorists, pedestrians, vehicular traffic, suburban thoroughfares, snow emergency routes, snow removal equipment, sanitation crews, salt spreaders, accumulations, bridges and tunnels and airports.

Psychic images emanated from him, and with my Twilight Eyes I saw that he had often used his tanklike Mack truck to run unwary motorists off otherwise deserted stretches of Florida highway, ramming or forcing them into canals where they were trapped inside their cars and drowned, or into swamps where the stinking, gluey muck sucked them under.

In the background, Marsha heard honking, the squealing of tires, the dim filtered sound of other motorists shouting at Mel, their voices Dopplering wierdly as they veered and accelerated around him.

For over twenty months the scores of burnt-out hulls piling up in Adirondack chasms were regarded as either suicides or inexplicable doze-behind-the-wheel-type single-car accidents by NNY State Troopers who had to detach their chinstraps to scratch under their big brown hats over the mysterious sleepiness that seemed to afflict Adirondack motorists at what looked to be high-adrenaline mountaintop passes.

The tall bony one had already disappeared, and presumbly he was at the wheel, for the engine roared up even before the door slammed, and the car leapt away with a grind of spinning tires that would have made any normal war-time motorist wince.

Motorists certainly had a more cossetted, looked-after existence than we did.

Soon after arriving there, he left in different clothes than he'd worn out of the hotel-taking a side exit rather than the back door, the only detail not to meet Ricci's prediction to the letter -and was then chauffeured off in the passenger seat of an unmarked sedan that pulled into the crosstown avenue's westbound lanes and clanked along seemingly on two cylinders, an authentic touch that allowed it to blend nicely with the crumpled matchboxes driven by the average motorist in this land of plenty.