four-wheel drive

noun

: an automotive drive mechanism that acts on all four wheels of the vehicle

also : a vehicle equipped with such a drive

Examples of four-wheel drive in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The car also offers both two- and four-wheel drive, plus regenerative braking. — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Mar. 2023

The Wagoneer's Quadra-Trac full-time four-wheel drive is a large contributor to these feelings of civilized sophistication. — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 18 Mar. 2023

The two men, along with Corduroy, Ryan’s chocolate lab, climbed into Ryan’s four-wheel drive. — Thallman, oregonlive, 18 Mar. 2023

Because the body was in a flood area, deputies from the Imperial Beach sheriff’s station, Border Patrol agents and Imperial Beach lifeguards worked together and used four-wheel drive vehicles and heavy equipment to retrieve the body, Vega said. — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1926, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for four-wheel drive

• overdrive
• alive
• archive
• arrive
• beehive
• connive
• contrive
• deprive
• derive
• khedive
• revive
• survive