What's the difference between commuter and passenger?

Commuter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
  • (2) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
  • (3) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (4) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
  • (5) The surface mount electronic internal controller provides motor commutator, energy management, telemetry, and physiologic control functions.
  • (6) The pair woke up early and gathered their birth certificates, social security cards and passports before making the roughly three-hour commute.
  • (7) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
  • (8) Well, news from the commuters and the rail users is that we don't like it, and we want a cheaper more equitable service.
  • (9) Two weeks after the July 7 suicide bomb attacks that killed 52 London commuters and injured more then 750, Shahid, a young Londoner who had just completed his fourth year at medical school, flew to Pakistan .
  • (10) Stephen Joseph, its chief executive said: "This is bitter news for everyone who relies on the train to get to work, not least the large number of commuters in marginal constituencies who will be a key group at the next election."
  • (11) Concluding an inquiry into the experience of rail passengers that became dominated by the events at Southern , the transport select committee said commuters had been badly let down.
  • (12) When you factor in commuting costs, it's not surprising many families decide it doesn't make sense financially for both parents to work.
  • (13) If you are a London commuter dreading tube strike chaos this evening and tomorrow there is an alternative to fighting your way on to overcrowded buses or a long walk.
  • (14) Prenatal care is provided in rural areas by health care people that commute from the cities.
  • (15) Sir Stephen Richards, 59, was arrested by detectives investigating an alleged sexual assault on a commuter service between London Waterloo and Wimbledon in south-west London.
  • (16) Another described First Great Western as " the worst commuter line I've ever had to endure ": "Not only is it the most expensive train line in Europe, it was never on time.
  • (17) Mahaneela Choudhury-Reid, a Londoner of colour, clashed with a smartly dressed commuter during what should have been the mid-morning quiet.
  • (18) Transport for London stepped in with a £750m pledge to prevent meltdown in the public-private partnership for the underground yesterday, as the capital's mayor warned of a "difficult period" for commuters after the tube's biggest maintenance firm entered administration.
  • (19) Potential London escapees will probably be put off by the cost of commuting, as an annual season ticket costs about £5,000, and the knowledge that state schools in London are better, on the whole, although Oxford has a stellar independent sector thanks to the likes of Oxford High School for Girls and Magdalen College School .
  • (20) The commutations are meant to combat the strict mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes – symbolically, at least – an area where Republicans and Democrats both support reform .

Passenger


Definition:

  • (n.) A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer.
  • (n.) A traveler by some established conveyance, as a coach, steamboat, railroad train, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Whether Sia, Jason Derulo, Coldplay’s Chris Martin or Sir Elton John is in the passenger seat, Corden plays the part of a real fan with a deep knowledge of their discography.
  • (3) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
  • (4) The plans would eventually double the numbers of passengers at the Sussex airport, which believes its current capacity to grow from 34 million to 45 million with a single runway will see it through until the mid-2020s.
  • (5) Vehicles were stopped and their passengers made to disembark while sniffer dogs went on board.
  • (6) Our members have had to bear the brunt of the passengers’ wrath, because the senior executives and staff went running for cover,” he said.
  • (7) Have a holistic approach to transport planning Walking and cycling is never going to be a major mode for our passengers in Gatwick airport.
  • (8) The airport drafted in extra staff to help passengers.
  • (9) While demand in the US remains sluggish, Toyota has benefited at home from a revival in demand for its Prius petrol-electric hybrid, Japan's best-selling passenger car for the past five months.
  • (10) They mean that a passenger arriving at Dublin airport could face the same digital checks as any arriving at Heathrow.
  • (11) The CAA can help passengers bringing complaints against airlines or airports, although it stressed that passengers should first contact airlines to give them an opportunity to consider their claim before getting the authority involved.
  • (12) The passengers were then flown to an Australian icebreaker, the Aurora Australis, which had cracked through ice floes and was now sailing towards Australia's Casey research base.
  • (13) It is only going to cause more disruption and misery for passengers.
  • (14) Mary Creagh, the shadow transport secretary, said: "Over the last three years David Cameron has failed to stand up for working people, allowing train companies to hit passengers with inflation-busting fare rises of up to 9%.
  • (15) The train operator advised passengers to use alternative routes with South West Trains and Chiltern Trains and has offered refunds to travellers who decide not to travel on Saturday.
  • (16) Martin Frobisher, the area director for Network Rail, said: "The Northern Hub and electrification programme is the biggest investment in the railway in the north of England for a generation and will transform rail travel for millions of passengers every year."
  • (17) Mortality levels of 100% for Culex quinquefasciatus and Musca domestica test insects were recorded under normal operating conditions during routine scheduled passenger flights with disinsection procedures undertaken at "blocks-away" or at "top-of-descent".
  • (18) Delta Air Lines said it was no longer sending flights through Ukrainian airspace after the crash of a Malaysia Airlines passenger plane in rebel-held eastern Ukraine.
  • (19) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
  • (20) Denominators (base population) were obtained from monitoring a random sample of returning British travellers with the international passenger survey.