What's the difference between baggage and luggage?

Baggage


Definition:

  • (n.) The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
  • (n.) The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.
  • (n.) Purulent matter.
  • (n.) Trashy talk.
  • (n.) A man of bad character.
  • (n.) A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
  • (n.) A romping, saucy girl.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We are very sorry if customers have not received their baggage and we will reunite them as quickly as possible."
  • (2) Cafferkey and her colleagues were cleared to go through to the baggage area but Cafferkey later returned to the screening area after a doctor in their volunteer group raised concerns.
  • (3) If he makes the move from NYPD commissioner to Homeland Security secretary, Kelly will carry with him to Washington some very hefty baggage.
  • (4) Passengers have been flying from Gatwick without their luggage after a breakdown in the airport’s baggage system delayed check-ins and caused chaos in terminals.
  • (5) But Souness would be carrying plenty of baggage back to Ewood Park and today he confirmed he had not been approached.
  • (6) The given reasons included health and safety, avoiding excessive queues in arrivals halls and baggage crises, and potential delays in flight schedules.
  • (7) Baggage handling systems were also affected: some passengers who did manage to get on the small number of flights to take off from the UK reported reaching their destinations without their luggage.
  • (8) But if it was anything more than that we would tell you politely to go away.” He said Ryanair had spent the year eliminating a lot of the policies passengers did not like, allowing more carry-on baggage, allocated seating and cutting punitive charges.
  • (9) As a result it is much more relaxing than airports where you feel like a piece of baggage on its way to the carousel.
  • (10) The Liberals made attack ads targeting Shorten’s “weakness” and Labor’s “baggage”.
  • (11) His view is that an Englishman should have the role and he dislikes the baggage that goes with the job.
  • (12) Kiarostami opted for Japan because it felt far away, neither Muslim nor western; a fresh adventure with no baggage attached.
  • (13) Fabienne Vansteenkiste , Belgium, 51 Vansteenkiste worked for the baggage team at Brussels airport.
  • (14) She inspires people Ian Murray “I just think she has been a good deputy leader; I think she’s fresh, she doesn’t carry any baggage of the past,” Murray said.
  • (15) One tweeted: "Great holiday but sour taste after the debacle in baggage reclaim last night.
  • (16) The Fianna Fáil identity may be all about history, but – as a folksy party of the pragmatic right – it has none of the ideological baggage that weighs Labour down in the UK.
  • (17) The third man caught on airport security cameras, wearing a cream jacket and pushing a baggage trolley into the departures hall alongside Laachraoui and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, is now the subject of a manhunt.
  • (18) Baggage The airline has also pledged to reunite passengers with their baggage via courier free of charge.
  • (19) After sitting on the tarmac for an hour and a half, we disembarked.” It came a day after passengers at Gatwick airport faced chaotic scenes and long queues due to a baggage system problem.
  • (20) Instead, the Los Angeles Clippers can now be an actual basketball team, without the baggage of their soon-to-be-former owner.

Luggage


Definition:

  • (n.) That which is lugged; anything cumbrous and heavy to be carried; especially, a traveler's trunks, baggage, etc., or their contents.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This morning he has mundane tasks to attend to – the logistics of players’ luggage for Basel – but the man they call Monchi is the sporting director and the architect who transformed the club.
  • (2) People were carrying luggage and fathers carried young children on their shoulders.
  • (3) But she said on Wednesday that privacy issues prevented her from naming the passenger, who was escorted off the plane along with his two travelling companions and their luggage.
  • (4) But they don’t keep it secret: it is printed on every piece of luggage.
  • (5) Passengers have been flying from Gatwick without their luggage after a breakdown in the airport’s baggage system delayed check-ins and caused chaos in terminals.
  • (6) The brand's luggage was supersized, with large holdalls carried by some models.
  • (7) An Australian couple were unwittingly conned into becoming multi-million dollar drug mules after winning a dream trip to Canada with new luggage thrown in.
  • (8) In Knox's case, she was supposed to have gone to work at a bar, and Sollecito was supposed to have gone to a train station to pick up a friend's luggage.
  • (9) I would like him to acknowledge in front of the court that he realises what it means that he was even in Auschwitz in the first place, let alone that he probably took the luggage from some of the 49 members of my family who were murdered there,” said 90-year-old Eva Fahidi from Budapest who was sent to Auschwitz as a teenager, and last saw her mother and 11-year-old sister on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
  • (10) Baggage handling systems were also affected: some passengers who did manage to get on the small number of flights to take off from the UK reported reaching their destinations without their luggage.
  • (11) On July 1, a former U.S. defense attache, David McNevin, was caught at Nairobi airport with illegal ivory in his luggage.
  • (12) Updated at 2.13pm BST 7.47pm BST Luggages at the crash site of MH17.
  • (13) Airlines are only obliged to pay passengers a maximum of around £1,200 when their luggage is lost or damaged.
  • (14) A woman at the United Airlines counter at Beijing airport told Reuters that Chen's luggage was checked in for the flight to Newark, New Jersey, and he was later seen on the flight by reporters.
  • (15) When boarding the train we found that the space was occupied by people and luggage, luckily they moved without too many dirty looks.
  • (16) "The train suddenly shook violently, casting luggage all around," Xinhua quoted survivor Liu Hongtao as saying.
  • (17) Other luggage would probably provide some insulation in the event of a fire in the baggage bins, and many people already check their laptops, but radically increasing the number of batteries in various states of repair in the inaccessible cargo area inevitably increases risk.
  • (18) A Downing Street spokeswoman did not deny that there had been concern about screening of luggage 10 months ago but refused to elaborate on what exactly the UK had requested in terms of improvements.
  • (19) The evacuation of British tourists was allowed to proceed after Downing Street said there had been an agreement with the Egyptian authorities on a “package of additional security measures”, including empty holds, extra screening on passengers, and checks on their hand luggage.
  • (20) Anthony Kwan Hok-chun, who works for the Hong Kong-based Initium media group, was held briefly on 23 August after trying to leave from Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport with a flak jacket and helmet in his hand luggage.