standing-room

English

Noun

standing-room (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of standing room
   • 1869, William Denton, The Deluge in the Light of Modern Science. A Discourse., Boston, Mass.: […] William Denton, page 6:

     Each floor of the ark contained five thousand six hundred and one square yards, and the three floors sixteen thousand eight hundred and three square yards, the total standing-room of the ark. […] Let us not crowd Noah, but take the six thousand two hundred and sixty-six species of Lesson. Seven of each of these would give us forty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty-two birds, from the humming-bird, the little flying jewel, to the ostrich that fans the heated air of the desert, nearly three for every yard of standing-room in the ark.

   • 1891 April, Herbert Maxwell, “Civilisation”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CXLIX, number DCCCCVI, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons, […], page 558:

     But also the time must be at hand when, if the population maintains its present rate of increase, standing-room on the globe will become a pressing problem.

   • 1905, Modern Types of City and Interurban Cars and Trucks, page 84:

     The detached gate leaning against the door in the picture shows how compactly it folds, and is the size usually used when mounted on the platform step, to increase standing-room on the platform.