passenger car

noun

US
: a railroad car that carries passengers

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Commercial truckers are held to a higher standard than passenger car drivers, and their licenses also require routine medical exams. Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 22 Aug. 2025 Electrify America Barrosa doesn't foresee EA getting into the Class 8 tractor-trailer charging game, instead preferring to service clients from the passenger car and last-mile delivery vehicle space, including Uber and Lyft drivers. Eileen Falkenberg-Hull, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025 First offered in a passenger car by Mercedes-Benz back in 1974, the five-cylinder engine has always been a bit of an automotive oddball. Bradley Iger, ArsTechnica, 25 July 2025 As for carbon dioxide, an EPA website pointed out the following facts: The average passenger car emits roughly 4.6 metric tons of carbon dioxide per year. Marshall Shepherd, Forbes.com, 20 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for passenger car

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“Passenger car.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/passenger%20car. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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