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  • noun Plural form of stowaway.

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Examples

  • If that's a serious commitment, it will be necessary to destroy the dangerous "stowaways" - the tax havens that harbor the world's most opaque investment funds.

    t r u t h o u t 2008

  • These deserters, or "stowaways," were in most instances sheltered by one or more of the crew; in which event they kept their places of concealment until the steamer had arrived at her port of destination, when they would profit by the first opportunity to leave the vessel undiscovered.

    The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner John Wilkinson

  • In this way the consul had saved to Milwaukee a worthy but imprudent brewer, and to New York an excellent sausage butcher and possible alderman; but had returned to martial duty one or two tramps or journeymen who had never seen America except from the decks of the ships in which they were "stowaways," and on which they were returned, -- and thus the temper and peace of two great nations were preserved.

    Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869

  • Fortunately for the four "stowaways" it was not the sparkle of the lens that had caused them to make that stop.

    The Boy Slaves Mayne Reid 1850

  • Even so, China maintains to this day that the shootings of the "stowaways" were done in self-defence after the Tibetans

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • Part of the cost savings comes from launching Firefly under the National Science Foundation's CubeSat program, which launches small satellites as "stowaways" aboard rockets carrying larger satellites into space, rather than requiring dedicated rocket launches.

    Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com 2010

  • Part of the cost savings comes from launching Firefly under the National Science Foundation's CubeSat program, which launches small satellites as "stowaways" aboard rockets carrying larger satellites into space, rather than requiring dedicated rocket launches.

    YubaNet.com 2010

  • We "stowaways" had had so much dirty work to do in all weathers for the past fortnight, that we looked sailor-like enough, I dare say; and as it had honestly been our endeavour to learn all we could, and shirk nothing, and as the captain's paper spoke well of us, I think the mate got a very good bargain -- for we were green enough to take lower wages than the customary rate on the strength of a long string of special reasons which he made us swallow.

    We and the World, Part II A Book for Boys Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

  • On the way back from Sicily, the kids discovered a few stowaways in the car!

    clandestin - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • It looked as if those throwaway stowaways were truly mine to keep!

    clandestin - French Word-A-Day 2010

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