{
    "term": "passenger",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person who is travelling in a car, bus, train, plane or ship and who is not driving it or working on it",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "airline/cruise/rail/bus passengers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I soon got talking to a **fellow passenger** on the flight."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The boat was **carrying** more than 100 **passengers**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **passenger train** *(= carrying passengers, not goods)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A taxi was picking up a passenger outside the hotel."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Flight 717 began boarding passengers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The bus stopped to let its passengers off."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The ship can accommodate 450 passengers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Will all passengers for Frankfurt please go to Gate 21."
                },
                {
                    "text": "first-class passengers"
                },
                {
                    "text": "A queue of foot passengers were waiting to board the boat."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Airline passengers face steep rises in fares."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Passengers were left stranded for three hours when their train broke down."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is no airbag on the passenger side."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The driver walked around and opened the passenger door."
                }
            ],
            "topics": [
                "Transport by bus and train",
                "Transport by water",
                "Transport by car or lorry",
                "Transport by air"
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["business-class", "coach", "economy-class"],
                "verb + passenger": ["carry", "fly", "transport"],
                "passenger + verb": ["wait", "be aboard (something)", "fly"],
                "passenger + noun": ["cabin", "compartment", "door"],
                "preposition": ["passenger for", "passenger in", "passenger on"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a member of a group or team who does not do as much work as the others",
            "labels": "(informal, disapproving, especially British English)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The firm cannot afford to carry passengers."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpæsɪndʒə(r)/",
                "audio": "pa/passenger/passenger__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpæsɪndʒər/",
                "audio": "pa/passenger/passenger__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from the Old French adjective passager ‘passing, transitory’, used as a noun, from passage, based on Latin passus ‘pace’."
}