non-passenger

noun

Not involving or relating to passengers.

Meanings

nounnon-passenger (plural non-passengers)

plural non-passengers

  1. alternativeAlternative form of nonpassenger.
  2. attributiveNot involving or relating to passengers.

    The electric locomotives, which have been a familiar sight for so many years, are to be withdrawn from passenger service, but a few will be retained for miscellaneous non-passenger duties.

    1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Metropolitan service revised”, in Trains Illustrated, page 584
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    The last but necessary characters to be described in the later 1970s, were the non-passenger locomotives brought into Amtrak stock with the purchase of the North-East Corridor from Conrail in 1976.

    1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak; The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, page 137

Origin

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APA

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Chicago

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