What's the difference between passenger and steerage?

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.

Steerage


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or practice of steering, or directing; as, the steerage of a ship.
  • (n.) The effect of the helm on a ship; the manner in which an individual ship is affected by the helm.
  • (n.) The hinder part of a vessel; the stern.
  • (n.) Properly, the space in the after part of a vessel, under the cabin, but used generally to indicate any part of a vessel having the poorest accommodations and occupied by passengers paying the lowest rate of fare.
  • (n.) Direction; regulation; management; guidance.
  • (n.) That by which a course is directed.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet many of his images dwell on less glamorous urban realities: immigrants arriving in steerage at the docks and the poor huddled masses dwarfed by buildings.
  • (2) A closed culture, overendowed with powers and as-seen-on-TV weaponry, frequently insolent and seemingly answerable to no one, the uncomfortable role of the police is increasingly to batten down the hatches in steerage while the privileged centile, Westminster in their pockets, pull away in the lifeboats.
  • (3) And not the kind of commercial organisation which, like Microsoft once was, sends all its executives steerage wherever they travel.