Definition of passenger
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: wayfarer
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: a traveler in a public or private conveyance
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Examples of passenger in a Sentence
There were two passengers in the car in addition to the driver.
There's no room for passengers on this project; everybody must do his share of the work.
Recent Examples of passenger from the Web
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Other passengers had minor injuries, The Washington Post reported.
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The driver and two other passengers were treated at University of Cincinnati Medical Center and released.
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In a hint of another purpose, other passengers included a physician, a psychiatrist and the assistant secretary of state for consular services, authorized to issue new passports on the spot.
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Dover says that other passengers in the terminal quickly gathered what was happening and stayed quiet out of respect for Brooks.
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In addition to the driver's graze wound, the other passengers suffered minor injuries from the car crash and the glass shattered by gunfire.
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In 2012, Ackerson was driving an armored truck with four passengers from a distant village in Afghanistan to a large forward operating base near the border with Turkmenistan.
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Those short-term changes include building new arrival corridors to reduce cross-flow with departing passengers, creating a central bag-screening facility and increasing the number of security checkpoints.
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The team included three American trucks with four passengers in each and at least six Nigerien vehicles.
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Origin and Etymology of passenger
Middle English passager, from Anglo-French, from passage path, way, passage, from passer
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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Definition of passenger for English Language Learners
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: a person who is traveling from one place to another in a car, bus, train, ship, airplane, etc., and who is not driving or working on it
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: a person in a group who does not do as much work as others
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Definition of passenger for Students
: someone riding on or in a vehicle
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