steerage
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Yet he was adventurous: one summer, work as a cattle feeder on a cattle steamer to England; one fall, steerage passage to Panama, in search of work there.
From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2021
I am sure the people back in steerage by the malfunctioning toilet are deeply invested in this marital squabble.
From Slate • Nov. 23, 2019
Wilson’s tone softened when he mentioned how three of his four grandparents were immigrants, including a maternal grandmother who came to the U.S. on a boat as a 16-year-old in steerage class.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 17, 2019
My father worked his way up from nothing, pulling himself up by bootstraps he knitted himself from rat fur in steerage.
From Washington Post • Jun. 19, 2019
Here lived the big-time politicians, the monied brewery families, the well-to-do immigrants who had been able to come over first-class instead of steerage.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
Vocabulary lists containing steerage
The Devil's Arithmetic
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A Night to Remember
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Vocabulary from Readings 1, Unit 1
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