non-passenger

English

Etymology

From non- +‎ passenger.

Noun

non-passenger (plural non-passengers)

1. Alternative form of nonpassenger
2. (attributive) Not involving or relating to passengers.
   • 1961 October, “Talking of Trains: Metropolitan service revised”, in Trains Illustrated, page 584:

     The electric locomotives, which have been a familiar sight for so many years, are to be withdrawn from passenger service, but a few will be retained for miscellaneous non-passenger duties.

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

     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.