See Also: driven 1,(dictionary)
Driven(money)
driven(dictionary)
DNA-driven reaction(medicine)
driven 2, adjective(dictionary)
Quote driven(finance)
Order driven(finance)
Event driven(finance)
Sales Driven(money)
Product Driven(money)

driven (iou)



driven ppl adjective. L15.
[pa. pple of DRIVE verb.]
Of snow: piled into drifts or made smooth by the wind. Chiefly in white as driven snow, pure as the driven snow, etc. L15.
Of feathers or down: selected by driving so as to get only the lightest. (Cf. DRIVE verb 14.) E17.
Shakespeare Othello My thrice-driven bed of down.
Urged onward, impelled; forced; powered; (of a person) showing intensity or compulsion in his or her behaviour; having as the chief reason or determinant the thing specified. Freq. as 2nd elem. of comb. M17.
consumer-driven, market-driven, receipt-driven, etc. driven well US a tube-well.
B. Friedan One, after five years of therapy, was no longer a driven woman.