steerage
a part or division of a ship, formerly the part containing the steering apparatus.
(in a passenger ship) the part or accommodations allotted to the passengers who travel at the cheapest rate.
Origin of steerage
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How to use steerage in a sentence
The airlines have indoctrinated us to accept a “steerage complex.”
Flying Coach Is the New Hell: How Airlines Engineer You Out of Room | Clive Irving | November 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTTwo thousand and seventy-four immigrants arrived in the steerage at New York.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellThere were other mournful cases indeed to be studied on the steerage deck, but none in which misfortune was so attractive.
Marriage la mode | Mrs. Humphry WardThere were those who said that they consented to go steerage because they thought steerage was fixed up like first cabin.
Ways of War and Peace | Delia AustrianOn sailed the boat, left to the steerage of Providence; on slept Newton, as if putting firm reliance on the same.
Newton Forster | Captain Frederick Marryat
I carry with me into the steerage just a bit of self-consciousness—there are so many trying to play upon me.
My Wonderful Visit | Charlie Chaplin
British Dictionary definitions for steerage
/ (ˈstɪərɪdʒ) /
the cheapest accommodation on a passenger ship, originally the compartments containing the steering apparatus
an instance or the practice of steering and the effect of this on a vessel or vehicle
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