minibus
IPA: mˈɪnibʌs
noun
- A small bus, especially one used as transport for small groups.
- (South Africa) A sixteen-seater vehicle used as a taxi.
- (historical) A small four-wheeled carriage.
- (US politics) A combined spending bill for multiple departments that is smaller than an omnibus bill.
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Examples of "minibus" in Sentences
- They don't have a car but a free minibus is provided by the council to take the children to their special schools.
- The other six bills were combined in a "minibus" package, filed as a conference report, and posted online yesterday.
- Same price, and leaving at the same time, so I'm not quite sure how it all works, but I learned that the minibus is the way to go.
- Despite its name, Minibus doesn't map Hong Kong's so-called minibus lines, the smaller vehicles that zip around town at breathtaking speeds.
- Just replaced the other car with a new French "minibus" because we are apparently not allowed to stick the kids+dog on the roof of a sports car.
- Georgetown; where we're staying in Penang, is pleasant enough despite the fact the first local to greet us as we got off the minibus was a huge rat.
- But the most striking detail of the minibus was a surveillance camera in a spherical case; such appliances are also used in the army, news agency BelaPAN writes.
- Ostensibly the $606 billion "minibus" -- combining funding for the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education -- is "only" $12.2 billion beyond the President's budget request for discretionary spending.
- They participated in the selection of both targets, namely the minibus taxi (whose attack was aborted for reasons which are unclear and are not relevant in this decision) as well as the bus which was fired at by the applicants as a result of which 7 people died and 27 others suffered serious injuries resulting in many of them being permanently disabled and disfigured ......
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