passenger

Pluralpassengers

Formspassengers, passengering, passengered

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A person who rides in a car, bus, plane, or boat but does not drive or work on it.

   Like a friend riding along in your car while you do the driving.

   The passenger in the front seat helped read the map.

   All the passengers had to show their tickets before boarding.

   Similartraveler, rider

   Oppositedriver

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2. 2
   nouncolloquialUKcountable

   A member of a group who lets others do most of the work.

   Like sitting in the back seat while everyone else does the driving.

   Nobody likes working with a passenger who never helps out.

   He was just a passenger on the project, letting his teammates do everything.

   Similarslacker, shirker, freeloader

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3. 3
   verbintransitive

   To ride in a vehicle that someone else is driving.

   Like being a guest in someone's car instead of the one at the wheel.

   I passenger while my brother drives us to school.

   She passengered in the truck all the way to the coast.

   Similarride

   Oppositedrive

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4. 4
   nouncountable

   One of the several separate warheads that a single large missile carries and launches.

   Like one delivery truck dropping off many separate packages at different houses.

   Each passenger on the missile could strike a different city.

   The rocket released its passengers high above the atmosphere.

   Similarwarhead

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5. 5
   nouncountable

   A young hawk caught for training during its first year of life, after it can already fly.

   Like adopting a young animal that has already learned to find its own food.

   The falconer trained a passenger he had caught in the fall.

   A passenger learns to hunt more easily than an older wild bird.

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6. 6
   nouncountable

   A type of moth, called Dysgonia algira by scientists.

   A passenger landed on the porch light after dark.

   We spotted several passengers fluttering around the lantern.

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