passenger car

noun

US
: a railroad car that carries passengers

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Illustrations by Thomas Merceron Even glancing contact between a passenger car and a semi truck is often enough to send the smaller vehicle pinwheeling across the highway. Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026 These two-inch-high CD players should fit into nearly any passenger car going back to the ’80s or earlier. Bestreviews, Mercury News, 9 Apr. 2026 The automaker reported an 8% drop in China passenger car sales last year. Eunice Yoon,evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026 The buffer storage unit was made from second-life passenger car batteries. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 20 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for passenger car

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“Passenger car.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passenger%20car. Accessed 28 Apr. 2026.

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