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Steerage passenger

Steerage \Steer"age\ (st[=e]r"[asl]j; 48), n.

  1. The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.

    He left the city, and, in a most tempestuous season, forsook the helm and steerage of the commonwealth.
    --Milton.

  2. (Naut.)

    1. The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.

    2. The hinder part of a vessel; the stern. [R.]
      --Swift.

    3. Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.

  3. Direction; regulation; management; guidance.

    He that hath the steerage of my course.
    --Shak.

  4. That by which a course is directed. [R.]

    Here he hung on high, The steerage of his wings.
    --Dryden.

    Steerage passenger, a passenger who takes passage in the steerage of a vessel.

Usage examples of "steerage passenger".

On the other hand, as Commodore Martindale had put it back at staff college, the difference between a steerage passenger flying in cold sleep and a Sybarite-class passenger flying in a luxury apartment was about two thousand ecus per day of transit time—.

Lost two overboard, one a Chinese, a steerage passenger, the other some sort of foreigner, we never did find out who he was.

ESMERALDA IS AN 830 THOUSAND-TON FREIGHTER-STEERAGE PASSENGER CARRIER.