Passengers Train Carry Taxi Travelling Ship Noun Bre

• a passenger train (= carrying passengers, not goods)
• the firm cannot afford to carry passengers.
• a taxi was picking up a passenger outside the hotel.
• all airports in the country screen passengers for illicit drugs.

passenger

1. a person who is travelling in a car, bus, train, plane or ship and who is not driving it or working on it
• a passenger train (= carrying passengers, not goods)
2. a member of a group or team who does not do as much work as the others
• The firm cannot afford to carry passengers.

Extra Examples

• A taxi was picking up a passenger outside the hotel.
• All airports in the country screen passengers for illicit drugs.
• All the passengers had to be evacuated.
• Flight 717 began boarding passengers.
• Global air passenger traffic rose over 20%.
• I soon got talking to my fellow passengers.
• Last year the airline carried 4.6 million passengers.
• Sales of passenger cars grew by 22% last year.
• The bus stopped to let its passengers off.
• The passengers were waiting to board the plane.
• The ship can accommodate 450 passengers.
• There is no air bag on the passenger side.
• Thousands of passengers were stranded last night at Heathrow airport.
• Will all passengers for Frankfurt please go to Gate 21.
• all the passengers on the ferry
• passengers travelling on the Orient Express
• the first-class passengers aboard steamboats
• the passengers in her car
• A queue of foot passengers were waiting to board the boat.
• Airline passengers face steep rises in fares.
• All checked-in baggage must be matched to a passenger travelling on the aircraft.
• All passengers for Chicago must have a boarding pass.
• Most of the passengers get off at Central Station.
• None of the passengers or crew was injured.
• Once the passengers were all aboard, the ship got ready to depart.
• Passengers on the local train service are getting more and more frustrated.
• Passengers were left stranded for three hours when their train broke down.
• She got into the passenger seat and I drove off.
• The bus stopped to let on passengers at the train station.
• The car can carry up to five passengers.
• The driver walked around and opened the passenger door.
• The rail link carries over 20 million passengers a year.
• The taxi driver dropped off his passengers outside the club.
• The train was halted by passenger action.
• There was a collision between a passenger train and a goods train.
• They want to improve passenger safety.
• This carriage is for first-class/second-class passengers only.

Word Origin

• Middle English: from the Old French adjective passager ‘passing, transitory’, used as a noun, from passage, based on Latin passus ‘pace’.