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UK
/stˈəʊəwˌeɪ/
]
[ US /ˈstoʊəˌweɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈstoʊəˌweɪ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who hides aboard a ship or plane in the hope of getting free passage
How To Use stowaway In A Sentence
- The shell-shocked stowaway was discovered running around the immigration detention centre at Manchester Airport after a flight from Jamaica.
- `One can go north, try to get to a port, stowaway on a neutral ship -- try to get to Sweden or somewhere like that. IN LOVE AND WAR
- The campaign is aimed to crack down on those who run blockades by sea or hide in containers, and those foreign stowaways who use China as a transfer point.
- The spotlight will also be on senior Belgian Government ministers next week when a senate commission will ask why x-ray scanners were not installed at all ports to detect stowaways.
- `One can go north, try to get to a port, stowaway on a neutral ship -- try to get to Sweden or somewhere like that. IN LOVE AND WAR
- Under the scheme which ran from April 2000 until December last year when the High Court made its ruling, drivers and freight operators faced a £2,000 fine for each stowaway found in their vehicles.
- If the spacecraft, after running out of maneuvering fuel, should crash into Europa, it might contaminate that moon with stowaway microbes from Earth and confound future searchers for indigenous life.
- You can't take the direct approach since this might draw attention to yourself so you must stowaway in the large piece of luggage which the bellhop is carting upstairs.
- The Army had barred Donovan from going in with any of its contingents, no way a Navy admiral would countermand orders from a sister service and take a stowaway, Stark told him. Wild Bill Donovan
- The crew discovered the stowaway about two days into their voyage.