- a person who is travelling in a car, bus, train, plane or ship and who is not driving it or working on it
- airline/cruise/rail/bus passengers
- I soon got talking to a fellow passenger on the flight.
- The boat was carrying more than 100 passengers.
- a passenger train (= carrying passengers, not goods)
Extra ExamplesTopics Transport by bus and traina2, Transport by watera2, Transport by car or lorrya2, Transport by aira2- A taxi was picking up a passenger outside the hotel.
- Flight 717 began boarding passengers.
- The bus stopped to let its passengers off.
- The ship can accommodate 450 passengers.
- Will all passengers for Frankfurt please go to Gate 21.
- first-class passengers
- A queue of foot passengers were waiting to board the boat.
- Airline passengers face steep rises in fares.
- Passengers were left stranded for three hours when their train broke down.
- There is no airbag on the passenger side.
- The driver walked around and opened the passenger door.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- business-class
- coach
- economy-class
- …
- carry
- fly
- transport
- …
- wait
- be aboard (something)
- fly
- …
- cabin
- compartment
- door
- …
- passenger for
- passenger in
- passenger on
- …
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- (informal, disapproving, especially British English) a member of a group or team who does not do as much work as the others
- The firm cannot afford to carry passengers.
Word OriginMiddle English: from the Old French adjective passager ‘passing, transitory’, used as a noun, from passage, based on Latin passus ‘pace’.
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