passenger
US: /ˈpæsəndʒɝ/
UK: /pˈæsɪndʒɐ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
passenger /'pæsindʤə/- danh từ
- hành khách (đi tàu xe...)
- (thông tục) thành viên không có khả năng làm được trò trống gì; thành viên kém không đóng góp đóng góp được gì (cho tổ, đội...)
- (định ngữ) (thuộc) hành khách; để chở hành khách
- a passenger boat: tàu thuỷ chở hành khách
- a passenger train: xe lửa chở hành khách
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 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 (informal disapproving, especially BrE) a member of a group or team who does not do as much work as the others: The firm cannot afford to carry passengers.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
rider, fare, traveller, voyager, commuter:
The cruise ships have very comfortable accommodation for their passengers.
Collocation
ADJ.
business-class, economy-class, first-class, second-class, standard-class | front-seat, rear-seat | airline, bus, rail | pillion
(= riding on the back of a motorcycle)
| fellow
I soon got talking to my fellow passengers.
VERB + PASSENGER
carry
Last year the airline carried 4.6 million passengers.
| let on, pick up, take on
A taxi was picking up a passenger outside the hotel.
| drop off, let off/out
The bus stopped to let its passengers off.
PASSENGER + VERB
wait
passengers waiting to board the plane
| be aboard (sth), go in/on sth, travel in/on sth
passengers travelling on the Orient Express
| board (sth), embark (on sth), get on (sth), go aboard (sth) | disembark, get off/out | be stranded
Thousands of passengers were stranded last night at Heathrow airport.
PASSENGER + NOUN
compartment | door | seat, side
There is no air bag on the passenger side.
| comfort, safety | aircraft, ferry, train | flight, services | list
PREP.
~ for
Will all passengers for Frankfurt please go to Gate 21.
| ~ in
the passengers in her car
| ~ on
all the passengers on the ferry
Concise dictionary
passengers'pæsɪndʒə(r)noun
+a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it
