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passage
(redirected from working passage)

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See: access, admission, admittance, avenue, change, chapter, circulation, clause, conversion, division, entrance, entry, excerpt, fare, ingress, osmosis, progress, reconversion, transition, transmittal

PASSAGE. A way over water; a voyage made over the sea or great river; as, the Sea Gull had a quick passage: the money paid for the transportation of a person over the sea; as, my, passage to Europe was one hundred and fifty dollars.



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Each vessel has a maximum capacity of 14 crew and there are still spaces available if any armchair adventurer fancies breaking out on a last minute working passage.
And certainly no openings for travel hungry youngsters seeking working passages as cabin boys or deck hands on ships bound for capricious Canton or other exotic ports dotted around the world.
 
 
 
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