bus
(bʌs )
Word forms: buses , busses , bussing , bussed language note: The plural form of the noun is buses. The third person singular of the verb is busses. American English uses the spellings buses, busing, bused for the verb.
1. countable noun [oft by NOUN] A1
A bus is a large motor vehicle which carries passengers from one place to another. Buses drive along particular routes, and you have to pay to travel in them.
He missed his last bus home.
They had to travel everywhere by bus.
2. verb
When someone is bussed to a particular place or when they bus there, they travel there on a bus.
Students from around the country are being bussed in for the protest. [be VERB-ed adverb/preposition]
To get our Colombian visas we bussed back to Medellin. [VERB adverb/preposition]
Essential services were provided by Serbian workers bussed in from outside the province. [VERB-ed]
3. verb [usually passive]
In some parts of the United States, when children are bused to school, they are transported by bus to a school in a different area so that children of different races can be educated together.
Many schools were in danger of closing because the children were bused out to other areas. [be VERB-ed adverb/preposition]
busing uncountable noun
The courts ordered busing to desegregate the schools.
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Collocations:
bus conductor bus depot bus driver bus fare bus fleet bus passenger bus ride bus route bus schedule bus seat bus terminal bus ticket bus tour bus transfers bus trip catch a bus charter bus chartered bus crowded bus double-decker bus drive a bus electric bus express bus intercity bus municipal bus open-top bus replacement bus take a bus tourist bus transit bus
His careers adviser suggested he might make a good bus conductor.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
His first job was as a bus conductor, before he became a roadie, stage designer, show producer and filmmaker.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
It is one of the biggest revolutions in the industry since the end of the bus conductor.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Or a duck whose ambition was to be a bus conductor.
The Sun (2008)
This interest was enhanced by two summers as a bus conductor while he was a student.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Sometimes it feels like this isn't a congregation but a bus depot.
Christianity Today
Things turn nasty at the bus depot as this quirky comedy-drama continues.
The Sun
I'm 38 and work in a bus depot where there's a constant flow of drivers and other staff.
The Sun
I rang the bus depot, but nothing had been handed in.
Times, Sunday Times
This can make pastors feel like we're running a bus depot rather than leading a community of believers.
Christianity Today
A retired bus driver has grown his way into the record books with a tomato plant that produced 1,355 fruits from a single seed.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Mr Ireland claimed that the case had cost him his job as a school bus driver.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She works as a dental nurse and my dad is a bus driver.
The Sun (2014)
Dazed and groggy and all that, but I hardly think the bus driver was Mensa material anyhow.
LOST BOY LOST GIRL (2004)
Sometimes they run out of money and need bus fare to make it the rest of the way.
Christianity Today (2000)
She cannot afford the bus fare to town to see a doctor.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The other was given his bus fare and told to go home.
A Channel of Peace (1993)
She could not afford the bus fare.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A garage was built in 1921 to cater for the bus fleet.
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The company bus fleet drives over 600 million miles every year.
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By 1926, the bus fleet had reached the total of 100 operating over 21 routes.
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The remains of the bus fleet quickly stalled due to fuel shortages.
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The coach fleet stood at 66, exceeding the size of the bus fleet.
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We did a test for toxins on a van driver, a car driver, a pedestrian, a bus passenger, a train traveller and a cyclist.
The Sun
However, commuters in diesel cars produced six times as much pollution as the average bus passenger.
Times, Sunday Times
Passport controls are the bane of the dozing bus passenger.
The Times Literary Supplement
But roads are dug up with seemingly little regard for bus passenger or motorist.
Times, Sunday Times
In 2009, bus passenger trips totaled approximately 654 million.
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The less energetic can take the 20- minute bus ride up to the lighthouse from the ferry terminal.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Sadly, it did not compare with my No. 30 bus ride up the Old Brompton Road to Knightsbridge and Park Lane but it was idle to repine.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE (1977)
The bus ride was a nightmare.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Less than an hour's bus ride from our hotel was a husky kennel where we were booked for a sleigh ride.
The Sun (2016)
Yes, all those years of toil and your wages amount to a bus ride and a meal deal.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
First the school goes, then other things follow, like the post office, the local shop and the bus route.
Times, Sunday Times
Can you recommend an ordinary bus route that covers some tourist sights?
Times, Sunday Times
In the centre of town - unlike the dwindling supply of actual drop-in centres, at the rainy end of the bus route.
Times, Sunday Times
All households on the bus route in question have received a free container to recycle their cooking oil.
Times, Sunday Times
Most new walks were easy to reach for motorists but only 20 per cent were on a bus route.
Times, Sunday Times
The bus schedule was actually more frequent in the 1970s, with several routes running 24 hour service and several with 30 min headways.
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The bus schedule for different part of the city can be found in the bus depot.
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These companies devise their own bus schedules along with their fare.
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Bus schedules were set in, pick-up points, conductors, and fixed ticket prices were mandated.
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The trams have no separate evening timetable, while bus schedules are modified only slightly.
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Every time we feed the birds in the garden, clear the snow from the pavement outside our house, or even warm a bus seat, we are benefiting someone else.
Times, Sunday Times
One was found embedded in a bus seat headrest.
The Sun
Break the scales and take up two bus seats and ministers will subsidise your fare.
Times, Sunday Times
First to go were the rows of conventional bus seats.
Times, Sunday Times
Wonder what he would find if he studied bus seats.
Times, Sunday Times
He walked to another bus terminal, where the crowd was even greater.
Times,Sunday Times
It had been hidden in a wheelbarrow and placed next to the bus terminal.
Times, Sunday Times
I hang on tight to the metaphor of the bus terminal, and work to respect her autonomy.
Globe and Mail
The building used to be a bus terminal.
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The bus terminal has a platform with three numbered boarding positions.
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The jockey was taken aback to be handed a bus ticket by hospital staff, but a car was dispatched to return him to the racecourse.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
No one ever taught him how to cross the road, or buy a bus ticket, or read a map.
GOING OUT (2002)
A young man who was too poor to buy a train or bus ticket was determined to make it home for the Chinese new year.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
We're thinking more along the lines of an open-top bus tour and a commemorative stamp issue.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
We had to do an open-top bus tour.
The Sun (2008)
Enjoy the open-top bus tour, the pats on the back and the free drinks.
The Sun (2008)
Bus transfers are free and take between five and 15 minutes.
The Sun
Bus transfers from the airport to the city centre cost 4 return.
Times, Sunday Times
Free bus transfers take three minutes.
The Sun
The 1081 m pier features 21 jet bridges, two of which have been rebuilt into waiting halls for bus transfers.
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It provides various route options with bus transfers.
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Against his better judgment, their translator agrees to accompany them on a two-day bus trip into the lawless mountain country.
Times, Sunday Times
He argued his son, 13, was not able to make a three-hour round bus trip and may lose his academy contract.
The Sun
There was no air-conditioning on the 10-hour bus trip, in 30-degree heat.
Times, Sunday Times
And not only in emerging countries, as my bus trip will highlight.
Times,Sunday Times
I am looking into opening a building society current account for her, but accessing this will mean a bus trip and walk into town three miles away.
Times, Sunday Times
Nor do we play badminton in an attempt to catch the bus.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Be prepared for a long wait if you take the ferry during peak season; jump the queues by catching the bus from Bournemouth.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We went there in a camper van and caught the bus to see the tower.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Most of the story takes place on the charter bus.
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The company continued as a charter bus service using motorcoaches into the mid-1980s, but eventually ceased service.
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Groups of students travel by charter bus across the country and volunteer in a new city each day.
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They set up the scarecrows in the garden at night, and the following morning found a charter bus and several cars parked on the side of the road.
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However, this proposed location for commuter buses would not have capacity for charter buses and tour buses.
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Despite the loss of shuttle operations, the company continues to provide the chartered bus operations used for tours and other events.
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Commercial chartered buses are available to and from the airports and some cities.
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All goes well and the guests travel to the wedding reception, held in a huge mansion, on chartered buses.
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But rents are rocketing too, even for unpleasant accommodation involving an hour's crowded bus and rail journey.
Times, Sunday Times
But it can also happen if you've been queueing, or standing in a crowded bus or train.
The Sun
I travelled home yesterday on a crowded bus in the 3.30pm school rush hour.
Times, Sunday Times
Take one battered car, an overloaded lorry or a crowded bus.
Times, Sunday Times
To even attend one of the after-parties, you have to leave your car miles away and take a crowded bus to the venue.
Times,Sunday Times
It features a double-decker bus painted white.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
He watches his gallops from the upstairs of an old double-decker bus.
The Sun (2008)
The largest modules are five times longer and three times as wide as a London double-decker bus.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
So we got an open-top double-decker bus and drove round playing on the roof.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
After three hours her bulletproof double-decker bus had moved only 300 yards.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This being the stuff you need to know these days, apparently, when you drive a bus.
Times, Sunday Times
And even then, you could drive a bus in there as well.
Times, Sunday Times
Maybe you should drive a bus instead.
Times, Sunday Times
Of being able to connect with people, being available, being present, allowing that person to drive the bus, allowing them to kind of take you on a journey of hope.
Christianity Today
The pigeon tries many excuses and tries to finagle readers into letting him drive the bus.
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Every time the electric bus brakes, it captures the energy and feeds it back into the batteries.
Times, Sunday Times
Passengers will have to be patient on a new electric bus because drivers may have to stop to recharge the batteries.
Times, Sunday Times
Guests can travel around the resort by bike or electric bus.
Times, Sunday Times
We're working with an electric bus company.
The Sun
Turns out it got the prize for its electric bus project.
Times, Sunday Times
Trips by express bus and boat are also part of the itinerary.
Times, Sunday Times
They are located in the express bus station in the town area.
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For instance, a rush-hour ride on an express bus costs $3.00, as opposed to $2.25 for non-rush hours.
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The study did indicate that the city was large enough to justify an express bus system.
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Rapid transit such as express bus or light rail may cover most of the distance, but sit too far out from commute endpoints.
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The station served intercity bus routes as well as local city and suburban buses.
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It also has various food and beverage vending machines in the intercity bus terminal portion of the building on the basement floor.
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The town also has an intercity bus station with services to various destinations.
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In addition to the public transportation authorities, which provide limited intercity connections, several commercial intercity bus services also operate.
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Bus ireann provides regular intercity bus services in the county.
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He was back in 17 minutes having been hit by a municipal bus.
The Star (South Africa)
The municipal bus service was also operating normally.
The Star (South Africa)
Some people make use of the municipal bus service to get to work, while others use their private cars.
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There are nearly 440 municipal bus lines serving over four million passengers every day, in addition to intercity lines.
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The city's public transport system keeps 29 municipal bus routes, which provide convenient transport to all districts.
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A good way to tour the city is by open-top red bus.
The Sun (2010)
As the victorious Spain team paraded the trophy in an open-top bus through the centre of the capital, the city prepared for another long night of partying.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The free bus pass will cover all local services, including open-top tour buses, but will not be valid on most long-distance coaches.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I spent four hours waiting for the replacement bus.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Many can look forward to engineering works, replacement buses and reduced timetables on some key routes.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Recently I had to use a replacement bus service when trains were not running.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Run for the hills (but don't take the bus).
Times, Sunday Times
He and a friend used to take the bus to school, a 45-minute journey.
Times, Sunday Times
Take the bus - catch the bus at weekends.
The Sun
They both take the bus to work in the morning.
Times, Sunday Times
Engineering works mean fans will also have to take a bus part of the way.
The Sun
After the airless propaganda of the tourist bus, it was like breathing again.
Times, Sunday Times
Near there we got on a tourist bus.
Times, Sunday Times
Three of them are lounging languidly 30ft away from the tourist bus.
Times, Sunday Times
It argues the tourist bus business has become more competitive since 2009, with new competitors entering the market.
The Sun
Admittedly, when a big tourist bus growls along the access road nearby, it can seem as if you're a little too much in the thick of things.
Times, Sunday Times
During the summer season a transit bus will get you around the island.
The Sun
It included battling to escape from an explod-ing transit bus - and fighting offdrunks.
The Sun
The printing firm sales boss took his snap on a transit bus taking passengers to the plane.
The Sun
Residents of the building found temporary shelter inside a city transit bus, though most were expected to be allowed back into their apartments later in the evening.
canada.com
In such case, the vehicles are modified standard transit bus, but with only one door and air conditioning.
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Translations:
Chinese: 公共汽车, 用公共汽车运送
Japanese: バス 乗り物, バスで行く
- every conceivable way
- everyday
- everyday activity
- everyday applications
- everyday chores
- everyday concerns
- everyday conversation
- everyday cooking
- everyday essentials
- everyday existence
- everyday expense
- everyday experience
- everyday habit
- everyday interaction
- everyday item
- everyday language
- everyday life
- everyday living
- everyday necessity
- everyday object
- everyday observation
- everyday occurrence
- everyday parlance
- everyday people
- everyday product