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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
passenger
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a passenger coach
▪ The company had thirty-five new passenger coaches.
a passenger train
▪ a passenger train bound for Geneva
a plane carries passengers
▪ A plane carrying 10 civilians was shot down.
a rail passenger
▪ Rail passengers will have to pay more for their tickets next year.
first-class passenger/seat/compartment etc
main/passenger/car etc deck
▪ a staircase leading to the passenger deck
passenger seat
the passenger door (=for the person in a car who sits beside the driver)
▪ The taxi driver was holding open the passenger door.
the passenger seat
▪ The cop in the passenger seat spun around to stare at him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
front
▪ In the front passenger seat, the Campbell.
▪ Storage space for front passengers is skimpy, limited to door pockets and a small center console.
▪ Both back and front seat passengers were wearing seat belts.
▪ Her friend Maya McGhee, also 16, was in the front passenger seat.
▪ Anne sat in the front in the passenger seat while Adam was in the back with Abigail.
▪ Stopped at traffic lights, he glanced down at the envelope lying in the shadows on the front passenger seat.
▪ As a result his friend Shean Kearney, 23, who was sitting in the front passenger seat was fatally injured.
▪ The front passenger could do with sturdy grab rail on the dash.
other
▪ There were two other passengers in the boat.
▪ None of the other passengers moved or spoke.
▪ He checked to be sure he was out of sight of the other passengers in the lounge.
▪ It was crowded and the other passengers had also watched the broadcast.
▪ There were no other passengers on the jumbo.
▪ Tempers flared as the supporters scuffled with other passengers.
■ NOUN
airline
▪ He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed.
▪ The government is losing millions because an airline passenger tax can not be collected.
▪ The B.A.A. prohibited the drivers from entering the airport except as bonafide airline passengers.
▪ We sat in our seats like airline passengers watching the in-flight movie without headsets.
▪ Apgood pinched his nose like an airline passenger trying to clear his eardrums, and looked Maxim over carefully.
bus
▪ Analysis of accidents involving bus passengers in future years will be undertaken.
▪ In the past year the first phase of the analysis of bus passenger casualties highlighted in the 1991 Plan has been undertaken.
▪ Without scaremongering, we fear very much for the needs of bus passengers.
▪ I hope that Hon. Members will confine themselves to talking about bus passengers.
▪ Reductions in bus passenger and car rear seat passenger casualties have contributed in large degree to this decrease.
▪ The changes would have a detrimental effect on bus passengers.
▪ The evidence is that when free concessionary travel was withdrawn fewer trips were made and there were fewer elderly bus passenger casualties.
car
▪ All passenger cars must withstand the standard 363 tonne buffing load without deforming.
▪ Taxes on commercial vehicles are also lower than on passenger cars, he said.
▪ Today, it would be lucky if its top-selling passenger car managed 300,000 units.
▪ Background: Arizona law limited train lengths to fourteen passenger cars or seventy freight cars in the asserted interests of safety.
▪ An increase in passenger car exports was offset by a 20 percent fall in commercial vehicle exports.
▪ It has become the world's most popular passenger car diesel since it was introduced just over 10 years ago.
▪ Lighttruck sales powered the increase, rising 7. 7 %, while sales of passenger cars dropped 1. 4 %.
door
▪ He had the passenger door open before she could free herself from the seatbelt.
▪ Davis entered the passenger door and held a shotgun to her neck.
▪ Corporal Pocock opened the passenger door, leaned across and shot Fleischmann through the head.
▪ He got in, put his hands on the wheel, motioned her over to the passenger door.
▪ He stroked the Gullwing as he passed it and then unlocked the Ferrari's passenger door to let Billie in.
▪ Immediately he was off in a slow lope without having closed the passenger door.
▪ He smiled, holding the passenger door open for her.
▪ As Carla drew closer, the driver leaned over and rolled down the passenger door window.
foot
▪ Where the foot passenger steps on to the limits before the vehicle reaches them, the driver must accord precedence.
▪ There was considerable shipping traffic; many wheeled vehicles mingled with the throng of foot passengers.
miles
▪ For the year, revenue passenger miles increased 8. 8 % to 13. 3 billion.
▪ For the year, traffic rose 24 % to 1. 26 billion revenue passenger miles from 1. 02 billion.
▪ For the year, traffic fell 3. 8 % to 40 billion revenue passenger miles from 41. 6 billion.
rail
▪ The launch will bring a rare toast from millions of rail passengers hit by winter delays caused by leaves on the line.
▪ Va., has announced that he intends to make an effort today to assure continued rail passenger service for West Virginia.
▪ Jan 16, 2001 Who should pay the penalty for the miseries suffered by rail passengers this winter?
▪ Elsewhere rail passengers either found other means of transport, or stayed at home.
revenue
▪ For the year, revenue passenger miles increased 8. 8 % to 13. 3 billion.
▪ For the year, traffic rose 24 % to 1. 26 billion revenue passenger miles from 1. 02 billion.
▪ A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile.
▪ For the year, traffic fell 3. 8 % to 40 billion revenue passenger miles from 41. 6 billion.
seat
▪ Both back and front seat passengers were wearing seat belts.
▪ Reductions in bus passenger and car rear seat passenger casualties have contributed in large degree to this decrease.
▪ The introduction of compulsory seat belt wearing for rear seat passengers may also have contributed to this reduction.
▪ This coincided with the introduction of new seat belt legislation regarding rear seat passengers.
▪ Two are in the front and no bulkhead intrudes into the Squirrel cabin so the rear seat passengers have excellent all-round vision.
▪ The traditional 100-inch wheelbase has been extended to 108 inches, the extra length being donated to the rear seat passengers.
▪ But the back seat passenger was Michael Johnson, an armed robber with a history of prison escapes.
▪ But I was disappointed to find space for back seat passengers as cramped as in the 5.
service
▪ Developed for carrying coal and agricultural produce a passenger service was rapidly initiated using wagons, open carriages and converted stage coaches.
▪ Va., has announced that he intends to make an effort today to assure continued rail passenger service for West Virginia.
▪ It was suggested that 400 passenger services be withdrawn or modified and 2,000 stations and 5,000 route miles closed to passenger traffic.
▪ And passenger service growth has stalled.
▪ The revenue impact for social railway investment is met by increases in the passenger service obligation grant.
▪ Delivery of the jets is scheduled to begin in July, with passenger service to begin in September.
▪ New working practices would be introduced once passenger services were privatised which would be more flexible.
▪ The visiting locomotives will progressively arrive during the Steam Festival and after a test run will be used on weekend passenger services.
ship
▪ There's no more relaxing way of travelling, and passenger ships leave the Burkliplatz daily from April to October.
▪ Even the Sun Princess' status as the newest passenger ship lasted less than a month.
▪ A big one - a passenger ship!
▪ The ship has one of the most loyal followings in passenger ship history.
▪ At 14 stories high and three football fields in length, it is the biggest passenger ship afloat.
side
▪ He tossed them on to the back seat and went to the passenger side of the car.
▪ The attorney showed the rapt jury a blown-up photograph of the van, whose passenger side had been ripped open.
▪ He approached the front door on the passenger side.
▪ Officers found him curled in a ball on the passenger side.
▪ I hesitated for a moment and then approached the car on the passenger side.
▪ Maura says as she unlocks the door on the passenger side for me.
▪ He crossed to the passenger side of the car, opened that door too.
▪ Just then, a car pulled up, and an old woman began struggling to get out of the passenger side.
traffic
▪ It was suggested that 400 passenger services be withdrawn or modified and 2,000 stations and 5,000 route miles closed to passenger traffic.
▪ In Arizona, approximately 93 % of the freight traffic and 95 % of the passenger traffic is interstate.
▪ There, passenger traffic was light, and was generally regarded as a nuisance.
▪ Bishop's Castle Railway opened for passenger traffic.
▪ By 1919 much of the passenger traffic had moved to rail and road and only cargo steamers were then employed.
▪ The station opened in 1933, designed for continuing growth in passenger traffic.
▪ And the abiding memory of the eighties must be of the greatest achievement, the enormous increase in passenger traffic.
▪ Swindon and Peterborough probably have more commuters going to them than their total everyday passenger traffic in the steam age.
train
▪ The engine on the passenger train is the same one that was involved in the Hatfield train disaster.
▪ Amtrak also runs its passenger trains on this stretch.
▪ He went to assist at a passenger train derailment last year and got trapped in the wreckage.
▪ The engine of the passenger train and six wagons in the coal train were considerably damaged.
▪ No passenger train ever stops here.
▪ He took them down to the station and sent them off to London by passenger train.
▪ Since nearly all passenger trains included Pullmans, a nationwide strike resulted.
transport
▪ Another is the fares paid on passenger transport.
▪ This research project examines the contrast between policies of integration and competition in the passenger transport industry.
▪ The subsidies mentioned in the table are mainly directed to housing, passenger transport and other economic affairs and services.
▪ Edinburgh's transport Railway histories are innumerable and road passenger transport histories are by no means rare.
▪ Mr Hunter's book is unusual in that this is the first volume of the history of a passenger transport network.
■ VERB
allow
▪ Private hire cars also carry roof signs showing their telephone numbers, but are only allowed to carry passengers in response to telephone requests.
▪ Workers in many stations allowed passengers through the turnstiles without the usual 15-cent tickets.
▪ A sand bar was dredged, allowing the passenger and excursion steamers to make better use of the port.
▪ Likewise, airlines issue those lists to security personnel at airports which allow only ticketed passengers beyond the security checkpoint.
carry
▪ Within five years they were carrying over seven million passengers a year.
▪ Altogether the new £28 million rail link is expected to carry over 1.5 million passengers a year.
▪ The Le Shuttle trains carried 163, 305 passenger vehicles, including 6, 306 buses, during the month.
▪ It did not originally carry passengers, since entry was gained by a ladder!
▪ The Sun Princess carries 1, 950 passengers, far fewer than ships far smaller.
▪ Fork truck carrying unauthorised passenger. 26.
kill
▪ Pan Am did not kill its own passengers.
▪ The Pentagon prepares to blow the plane out of the sky even though it means killing the 400 passengers.
▪ If not, they will kill a passenger.
▪ In San Francisco, two limos carrying congressmen also explode, killing all the passengers.
open
▪ Corporal Pocock opened the passenger door, leaned across and shot Fleischmann through the head.
▪ For the first few stops, only the front three cars were opened for passengers.
▪ On 1 May 1956 this branch finally closed, having been opened to passenger and freight traffic in 1863.
▪ As he always did, Graham opened the passenger door for his wife and closed it once she was in.
▪ John came round the car to open the rear passenger door, but McCready beat him to it.
▪ The gunman managed to unbuckle his safety belt and struggled to push open the passenger door.
▪ As Robert leaned over to open the passenger door, she handed him the plaster but made no attempt to get in.
pay
▪ Three compartments next to the guard's van were kept for the use of fare paying passengers.
▪ The load factor is the percentage of seats filled by paying passengers.
▪ A revenue passenger mile is one paying passenger flown one mile.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
foot passenger
▪ There was considerable shipping traffic; many wheeled vehicles mingled with the throng of foot passengers.
▪ Where the foot passenger steps on to the limits before the vehicle reaches them, the driver must accord precedence.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ About 70 of the train's 500 passengers were injured in the crash.
▪ The airport was jammed with thousands of passengers from delayed or cancelled flights.
▪ The driver and all three passengers were killed in the crash.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was like a shipwreck, where the resourceful child passenger becomes the first mate.
▪ Police Superintendent Tony Thompson said 144 passengers had booked tickets, but there could have been more or fewer aboard.
▪ Several justices voiced doubt about the wisdom of giving police automatic authority to tell all passengers to get out of a car.
▪ Some allowance must be made for the large number of passengers without tickets in 1922.
▪ The following table shows how many litres of petrol per 100 passenger kilometres different modes of transport consume.
▪ The local Station served the surrounding community and carried a fair amount of passenger and freight traffic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Passenger

Passenger \Pas"sen*ger\, n. [OE. & F. passager. See Passage, and cf. Messenger.]

  1. A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.
    --Shak.

  2. A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc.

    Passenger falcon (Zo["o]l.), a migratory hawk.
    --Ainsworth.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
passenger

early 14c., passager "passer-by," from Old French passagier "traveler, passer-by" (Modern French passager), noun use of passagier (adj.) "passing, fleeting, traveling," from passage (see passage).\n\nAnd in this I resemble the Lappwing, who fearing hir young ones to be destroyed by passengers, flyeth with a false cry farre from their nestes, making those that looke for them seeke where they are not ....

[John Lyly, "Euphues and His England," 1580]

\nThe -n- was added early 15c. (compare messenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer). Meaning "one traveling in a vehicle or vessel" first attested 1510s. Passenger-pigeon of North America so called from 1802; extinct since 1914.
Wiktionary
passenger

n. One who rides or travels in a vehicle, but who does not operate it and is not a member of the crew. vb. (context intransitive English) To ride as a passenger in a vehicle.

WordNet
passenger

n. a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it [syn: rider]

Wikipedia
Passenger (Swedish band)

Passenger was a Swedish metal band active between 1995–2004.

Passenger (Passenger album)

Passenger is the only studio album by the metal band Passenger. It was released through Century Media in 2003.

Passenger (disambiguation)

A passenger is a passive traveler in a vehicle.

Passenger(s) or The Passenger(s) may also refer to:

Passenger (1963 film)

Passenger is an unfinished 1963 Polish film directed by Andrzej Munk, which Witold Lesiewicz assembled for release.

Passenger, using the form of a documentary, relates the experiences of one female SS officer (Slaska) at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II and her relationship with an inmate, Marta (Ciepielewska), whose life she manages to save on occasion.

Munk died in a car accident while the film was in production and the completed scenes were combined from parts of original footage and screenplay sketches by Witold Lesiewicz. The methods used are explained in a voiceover during the course of the film, so its unfinished state itself takes a documentary form. Parts of the film were shot at Auschwitz. The source was a radio drama Passenger from Cabin Number 45, written by Zofia Posmysz-Piasecka in 1959. Posmysz's play was later reworked into a novel. It was published in 1962 as Pasażerka.

Passenger (Tara MacLean album)

Passenger is the second album by Canadian singer/songwriter Tara MacLean, released in 2000.

Passenger

A passenger (also abbreviated as pax) is a person who travels in a vehicle but bears little or no responsibility for the tasks required for that vehicle to arrive at its destination or otherwise operate the vehicle.

Passengers are people who ride on buses, passenger trains, airliners, ships, ferryboats, and other methods of transportation. Historically, the concept of the passenger has existed for as long as man has been able to create means of transportation capable of carrying more people than were needed to operate the vessel.

Crew members (if any), as well as the driver or pilot of the vehicle, are usually not considered to be passengers. For example, a flight attendant on an airline would not be considered a "passenger" while on duty, but an employee riding in a company car being driven by another person would be considered a passenger, even if the car was being driven on company business.

Passenger (Powderfinger song)

"Passenger" is a song from Powderfinger's third studio album Internationalist. It was released as a single on 9 August 1999, and reached #30 on the Australian music chart. The single was nominated for Single of the year in 2000 at the Australian ARIA Music Awards. "Passenger" was also featured as the opening song performed by Powderfinger while supporting Crowded House's Farewell to the World charity concert in November 1996.

Passenger (2009 film)

Passenger is a 2009 thriller film written and directed by debutant Ranjith Sankar and starring Sreenivasan, Dileep, Mamta Mohandas, Jagathy Sreekumar and Nedumudi Venu in major roles. It was well appreciated for its novelty and was declared as a hit. Owing to its critical and commercial success, Passenger is being remade into Tamil as Muriyadi.

Passenger (Lisa Hannigan album)

Passenger is the second and Choice Music Prize nominated album from Irish singer/ songwriter Lisa Hannigan. The album was released in the US and Canada on 20 September 2011 and in the Republic of Ireland on 7 October 2011 (brought forward from the originally scheduled date, 21 October). The LP features 11 new tracks.

The album was self-released in Ireland and UK through her label, Hoop Records. The album was released in North America through Barp-ATO Records and later for Europe in 2012 on PIAS Recordings.

Passenger (British band)

Passenger were a British folk rock band established in 2003 in Brighton and Hove, England. It was fronted by Mike Rosenberg, the main vocalist and songwriter of the band, and Andrew Phillips. The band was at various times a quartet and a quintet. The band's name was stylized as /Passenger. (with a slash at the beginning and a dot at the end).

The /Passenger. debut studio album, Wicked Man's Rest, was released in 2007 on Chalkmark. All 11 tracks of the album were co-written by Phillips and Rosenberg. Soon after the release of the album, Andrew Philips left the band. The band broke up in October 2009.

Passenger (Mnemic album)

Passenger is the third album by the Danish industrial metal band Mnemic, and is the first to feature vocalist Guillaume Bideau (formerly of Scarve).

Originally, mixing duties were to be handled by Andy Sneap, but the band later decided to have Tue Madsen (producer and mixer on both previous albums) mix instead. Christian Olde Wolbers from Fear Factory also did co-production work for this album. Since this album, the guitarists use downtuned 7 string guitars.

To promote the album, the band went on a tour of North America in January and February 2007 with God Forbid, Goatwhore, Arsis, The Human Abstract, and Byzantine and on a tour of the UK with the Deftones in March. The album shifted 1,223 copies in the US during its first week of release.

Due to much more promotion by the band's official website, as well as the record label and fans alike; Passenger has sold close to 50,000 copies in North America.

Passenger (Nico Touches the Walls album)

"Passenger" is the third full-length album released by the band Nico Touches the Walls in Japan on April 6, 2011, through Ki/oon Records. The album features the hit single " Diver", the eighth opening song to the popular anime Naruto Shippuden, the single "Sudden Death Game" and the song "Matryoshka" that was used as the opening theme for the anime C.

The album is available in a limited "CD+DVD" edition which features an exclusive documentary on the making of the album. It was announced that "Passenger" would also be released in the US, but no official American release date has been announced.

Passenger (singer)

Michael David Rosenberg (born 17 May 1984), better known by his stage name Passenger, is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Previously the main vocalist and songwriter of Passenger, Rosenberg opted to keep the band's name for his solo work after the band dissolved in 2009. His most successful single, " Let Her Go", has topped the charts in many countries. In 2014, the song was nominated for the Brit Award for British Single of the Year, and he received the British Academy's Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work.

Passenger (Britney Spears song)

"Passenger" is a song recorded by American singer Britney Spears for the eighth studio album Britney Jean. It was written by Spears, Sia Furler, Katy Perry, Andrew Swanson and Diplo, being produced by the latter, while the vocal production was done by Anthony Preston, who produced most of the album. The song has received critical acclaim from music critics.

Passenger (Posmysz novel)

Passenger (Polish: '' Pasażerka'') is a 1962 novel by Zofia Posmysz, which originated from a radio drama Passenger from Cabin Number 45, written in 1959. The novel was translated from Polish into Hungarian, (1963), Czech (1964), Russian (1964), Bulgarian (1965), Slovak (1965), Latvian (1966), Lithuanian (1966), Moldovan (1966), Romanian (1967), German (1969), Japanese (1971), Ukrainian (1972) and Kazakh (1986).

Andrzej Munk's 1963 film Passenger and Mieczysław Weinberg's 1968 opera The Passenger are based on this work.

Usage examples of "passenger".

As a vessel with no regular ports of call, with only very limited passenger accommodation and capacious cargo holds that were seldom far from full, the s.

He has never in his life left the passenger accommodation before eleven p.

I hung up, got through to the duty engineer officer, asked him to detain some men to come to the passenger accommodation, made another call to tommy wilson, the second officer, then asked to be put through to the captain.

Kaiser appraised the clumpy object wrapped in oilskin that sat on the passenger seat.

He had arrived in the last car from Earth, whose hundred other passengers were milling about in Gate Hall, listening to the advice of the guardsmen or gawking at the scale of it.

No sooner had she stopped, than Charlie, the older apprentice, appeared from the front of the garage, sauntered across the ground between the garage and the road, and casually climbed into the passenger seat of the expensive car.

Confederation Astronautics Board to carry freight and up to twenty passengers, crew toroid refurbished, and crew-members in a tigerish frame of mind.

As the passengers left the shuttle by the rear exit, a dozen Katyl arrived, riding bareback on large, ponderous animals.

After a moment, sleepy guards and passengers trickled up out of the companionway, pulling themselves together as the bargeman guided his vessel toward the dock.

The barkentine belonging to Boscor Sack, I must believe, was intercepted, boarded, and captured by unknown pirates and her passengers and crew carried away captives.

That meant little to a vehicle without haul, like the Batwing, but a car with full Beaver and passengers could come upon quick disaster.

He--Eric Hansen--knew what the Captain and passengers only suspected, that Anne Bedo detested the man she had married.

The crews must take to their oars, and passengers must huddle as deep in the bellies of the ships as they can.

When the huge machine heaved up onto the crest of the berm, the driver brought it to a stop and beamed at his white-knuckled passenger.

By and by came the unsparing train-boy on his rounds, bestrewing the passengers successively with papers, magazines, fine-cut tobacco, and packages of candy.