a passenger vehicle designed for operation on ordinary roads and typically having four wheels and a gasoline or diesel internal-combustion engine.See also hybrid (def. 5b).
adjective
of or relating to automobiles; automotive.
Origin of automobile
1865–70; <French: literally, self-movable (vehicle). See auto-1, mobile
Located roughly 30 miles south of Milwaukee and 50 miles north of Chicago, Kenosha was once home to a sprawling automobile plant run by the old American Motors Corporation.
Kenosha’s unusual economic evolution made it the perfect political flashpoint|reymashayekhi|September 5, 2020|Fortune
Some analysts and outlets exclude categories such as restaurants, bars, automobile dealers and gas stations to tell a stronger growth story.
E-commerce explodes: 45% growth in Q2|Greg Sterling|August 19, 2020|Search Engine Land
While her politics leaned far to the left, newspaper magnate Ellen Browning Scripps couldn’t resist a luxury automobile.
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Before that, people in automobile manufacturing were sort of all-around mechanics and fabricators who basically had more or less complete, sort of, mental ownership of their own jobs.
Honey, I Grew the Economy (Ep. 399)|Stephen J. Dubner|December 5, 2019|Freakonomics
Strange was a surgeon who lost the use of his hands in an automobile accident.
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Because the automobile essentially was a motorized quadricycle.
Pryor Dodge's Two-Wheeled Obsession Is Now a Museum of Bike History|Anthony Haden-Guest|September 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He claimed that any serious conversation about poverty must include the issue of automobile access.
How Cars, Not Subways, Will Make Us Richer|Scott Beyer|June 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Or an expert on cars who refuses to look under the hood of an automobile.
Music Criticism Has Degenerated Into Lifestyle Reporting|Ted Gioia|March 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“General Motors did not start out to be a health care company that occasionally built an automobile,” Punaro said.
The H.M.O. That Kills Terrorists|Eleanor Clift|February 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The excellent automobile road around the rim affords easy approach afoot as well as by automobile and bicycle.
The Book of the National Parks|Robert Sterling Yard
It matters not to her; she can gaily slip over the county-border by automobile.
British Secret Service During the Great War|Nicholas Everitt
If his automobile went over the edge, now that the roads were icy, who could say it was not accidental?
The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure|Rex Beach
A friend of my fathers has an automobile and he let me steer it one day, oh, a long way.
Letty and the Twins|Helen Sherman Griffith
Link, can an automobile be driven from here into northern Mexico?
What Are We Gonna Call Self-Driving Cars If “Automobile” Is Already Taken?They’re strange metal boxes we sit in that take us wherever we need to go, somehow without us having to move or even be awake if we choose not to.