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0 a person who is travelling in a vehicle but is not driving it, flying it, or working on it:
- airline/rail/train/car passengers
- Two passenger trains were involved in the accident.
1 a person who is traveling in a vehicle but is not operating it or working as an employee in it:
- airline passengers
- Taxis are allowed to carry no more than four passengers.
2 a person who is travelling in a vehicle, or on a train or plane, but is not driving it, flying it, or working on it:
- Airlines report that passenger numbers are down.
- The report said light trucks on average emit 38 percent more carbon dioxide than passenger cars.
- airline/rail/car passengers
- a passenger jet/flight/plane
3 someone who does not work as hard as others in a group:
- Most modern law firms realise that they simply cannot afford to carry any passengers

The strike has led to the cancellation of some ferry services and left hundreds of passengers stranded at the docks.
All passengers for flight LH103 please proceed to gate 16.
Several train passengers received serious injuries in the crash.
Fortunately, none of the passengers were badly injured in the crash.
The law stipulates that new cars must have seat belts for the driver and every passenger.
Barges delivering goods from the west off-loaded at landing-docks upstream of the bridge, and wise passengers would disembark to by-pass it on foot.
He scared the passengers when he drove a car, if some bright idea came into his mind.
Baggage and passengers were separated, and the suburban and express passengers had no need to coincide with each other.