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How to pronounce steerage in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms steering
Type of control
Derivation steer
Type Words
Type of accommodation

Examples of steerage

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Like most Americans, I flew here, 12 hours in steerage, two meals on Air France.
From the thenewstribune.com
Given steerage conditions, there's hardly a fair comparison to be made with 1860.
From the latimes.com
On the ship, travelling in steerage, the women form a group, however disparate.
From the guardian.co.uk
Whilst the Epic is kiddie heaven, grown-ups certainly aren't treated as steerage.
From the express.co.uk
It still feels like steerage, albeit one with a nice personal TV to play with.
From the ocregister.com
I booked the cheapest inside stateroom available-the cruise equivalent of steerage.
From the theatlantic.com
Seth Kugel, the Frugal Traveler, seeks first-class living at steerage prices.
From the frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com
Passengers in steerage, or third class, had a galley to make many of their own meals.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Wondering whether steerage includes such amenities, I asked Wedmore how he was flying.
From the sfgate.com
More examples
  • The cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship
  • Steering: the act of steering a ship
  • The Steerage is a photograph taken by Alfred Stieglitz in 1907. It has been hailed as one of the greatest photographs of all time because it captures in a single image both a formative document of its time and one of the first works of artistic modernism.
  • The open area below the quarterdeck and in front of the great cabin. It was only an entry way to the great cabin on a man-of-war, but on merchant vessels was used to house the crewmen and 'steerage passengers'.
  • Steerage is another name for the Third Class accommodation, so called because on earlier ships, the accommodation was often to the rear of the vessel, close to the noisy propellers, and it wasn't uncommon for parts of the steering mechanism to be passing through or close to the rooms.
  • All passengers except cabin passengers.
  • Originally the junior officers' quarters in a naval vessel, referring to the fact that the ship's tiller often projected into the compartment, located far aft. ...
  • Steerage refers to managed care procedures that direct members inside a contracted network of providers. Sometimes referred to as repatriation, Steerage also refers to the effectiveness of utilization review functions to get out-of-area members back into the local contracted network. ...
  • The section of the cheapest berths on a passenger ship. This section was usually located in the rear of the ship were the rudder is.