driving force
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.73 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Impetus; a person or thing that causes, stimulates, or motivates something to happen.
noun
The force that causes something to move or a physical process to occur.
Example Sentences
- "Many authors see a digital revolution taking place today and stress that this is a driving force behind many changes in companies."
- "Every living creature has a driving force that pushes him in the direction of certain goals."
- "With the aim of moving toward our subsequent discussion of the driving forces behind mass indebtedness, however, we might take things a little further by condensing the original work's detailed breakdown into two very broad causes of individual indebtedness."
- "Sheikh Mohammed is the driving force behind the transformation of Dubai into one of the great cities of the modern world: a hub for business and tourism, and the world's gateway to the Middle East."
- "Marples, who later fled to Monaco to escape prosecution for fraud, was the driving force behind The Reshaping of British Railways report published on March 27 1963. Dr Richard Beeching [who wrote the report] was just his fall guy."
- "Diffusing particles experience a drift motion in addition to random diffusion, when an external driving force is applied."