private car

private car (plural private cars)

2. A car (automobile) that is for personal use and owned privately.

   Hypernyms: car, auto, automobile < motor vehicle < vehicle

   Coordinate term: company car

4. (rail transport, US) A railroad passenger car that is either privately owned or used privately, or both.

   Hypernyms: railroad car, rail car, car, carriage < rolling stock < vehicle

   • 1985, Rodger Bradley, Amtrak: The US National Railroad Passenger Corporation, Blandford Press, →ISBN, page 11, photo caption:

     In the days before televised press conferences, or debates between Presidential contenders, the railroads carried the politicians to the people. Here, President Truman addresses a crowd from the verandah of his private car, at Sacramento during the 1952 campaign.

• “private car”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “private car”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.