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passenger car

American  
[pas-uhn-jer kahr] / ˈpæs ən dʒər ˌkɑr /

noun

passenger cars plural
  1. a railroad car which is designed to carry passengers.


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It said that 52 percent of its passenger car sales in Europe are now electrified vehicles -- fully electric, plug-in hybrids and non-plug-in hybrids -- up from 43.8 percent in the first half of 2025.

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

China’s retail passenger car sales dropped 15% in March from a year earlier, while passenger car exports rose 74%.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 9, 2026

Of the 31 passenger car brands represented last month at the sprawling Indonesia International Auto Show outside Jakarta, about a third were from China.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2024

It will be the firm's first passenger car factory in Europe and is expected to create thousands of jobs.

From BBC Aug. 1, 2024

As Ophie and her mother traveled from Atlanta to Washington, DC, on the Birmingham Special, Pennsy enfolding the wounded pair in the embrace of her passenger car seats, the dead took notice.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

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