passenger seat

noun

: the front seat of a vehicle (such as a car) where a passenger sits

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The clip, taken in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, showed agents trying to get the child from the man in the driver’s seat of a vehicle, while a woman in the passenger seat—the target for ICE agents—was detained. Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2025 The left rear seat, on the other hand, is somewhat different; the designers have removed the traditional front passenger seat, giving the passenger lots of space to stretch out in first-class aircraft style. New Atlas, 31 Oct. 2025 The vehicle is actually roomy enough for a front passenger seat that can fully recline and comes equipped with a footrest. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 Oct. 2025 The Texas capital has allowed the company to put human safety operators in the passenger seat of the carmaker’s Model Ys, while the California tech hub requires those operators to be behind the wheel. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 29 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for passenger seat

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“Passenger seat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passenger%20seat. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.

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