driving skill

collocation in English

meaningsofdrivingandskill

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driving
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈdraɪ.vɪŋ/us
/ˈdraɪ.vɪŋ/
strong and powerful and therefore causing things ...
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skill
noun[C or U]
uk
/skɪl/us
/skɪl/
an ability to do an activity or job well, especially because you have ...
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(Definition ofdrivingandskillfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The second isdrivingskill, and the third is the ability to impart instruction.
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It would attack the freedom to saturate the reactions with so much alcohol that all judgment, timing anddrivingskillis lost.
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The test, for instance, is a test ofdrivingskilland driving ability and, as such, is a valuable thing.
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This is not a matter of bad judgment or of imperfectdrivingskill.
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This is at least as much a question of attitude as of lack ofdrivingskill.
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The deleterious effects of alcohol ondrivingskillare observable at 30mg, and increased proneness to traffic accidents accelerates sharply in the average drinking driver after 80 mg.
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Impaired psychomotor functions is another adverse effect, affecting reaction time anddrivingskill.
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It is also used to train thedrivingskillof a person who is learning to become a bus driver.
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Driving a training bus on the road is an important part of driving training, as it is the most practical to train one'sdrivingskill.
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Thedrivingskilltest must be taken in a vehicle that the driver operates or expects to operate.
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At present many of us rely quite strongly on an informant's report of a patient's driving skills.
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More proactive effort to help women maintain their driving skills would be beneficial.
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Chingford so admires hisdrivingskillthat he allows the couple to get engaged.
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The highway crosses many small streams of ice-cold water from snow-capped mountains and glacial melts without a bridge and it requiresdrivingskillto negotiate fast-flowing streams.
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The following yeardrivingskilltests for first time drivers became mandatory for the 500.
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It is the sort of car to which people should aspire once their driving skills are such that they can cope with the challenge.
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Good instruction is important for good driving skills and behaviour.
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I can think of many drivers who do not have diabetes but who would not in any way suffer from updating their driving skills.
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In the first instance it is when they have insufficient basic driving skills—when they slip through the driving examiner's net, as it were.
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Our strategy recognises that better driving skills and behaviour would make an enormous difference to reducing the number of road casualties, particularly among newly qualified drivers.
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