tank driver
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- noun
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conductor de tanque
- Even as a lone wolf medic or light tank driver, you can compete and earn respectable cert points, as long as you go where the fights are (kind of obvious, I know).
Examples
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He could have stayed in South Korea, where he spent his first year in the Army as a tank driver.
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Franks had been in the Army for 17 years and served as a tank driver in the Gulf War.
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Good night, everybody, and please remember to thank your designated tank driver.
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If Superman were a tank driver, he'd drive the super-tank.
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Tank driver.
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A tank driver might drive only an hour and a half during a weeklong call-up.
Synonyms
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A soldier who drives a military tank
How Skilled
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'tank driver' is directly compositional: 'tank' (armored vehicle) combined with 'driver' (person who drives) yields the straightforward meaning 'person who drives a tank.' This is a regular noun-noun vehicle-operator pattern found cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Tank driver comes from the simple picture of a soldier inside a heavy tank who uses controls to move it, so the driver is the person who steers the vehicle. That's why it means 'a soldier who drives a tank'.