Meaning of buses in English

(Definition of buses from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of buses

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From the 1930s to the 1950s the incidence of walking to work declined rapidly, but the use of buses and bicycles increased substantially.
In trains and buses the young people are never willing to offer their elders seats.
Since then the buses have become too many and the chance of making money has decreased.
Furthermore, companies face higher standards regarding the vintage of buses.
Having comfortable buses with a drop-step, making it easier to get on and off, and a regular and reliable service were also important.
Can get simple information about travel, use public transport: buses, trains, and taxis, and give directions, and buy tickets.
But you have to be reasonably fit to join it, because you have to climb in and out of those buses.
There are some schemes to provide subsidies for children and retired people to use railways and buses.
All this can be interpreted as an attempt to diminish the cost of abating pollution from buses and trucks.
The young jama'atis, eager to provoke the police, set buses and minibuses on fire, which inevitably met with harsh responses.
There are many people who use public transport these days, yet there are very few buses.
According to the rules, government employees including soldiers also have free transport on ^ private buses.
It provides 16-bit data loading through eight input data lines for direct interface to 8-bit data buses.
Both these estimates again suggest that the numbers of unlicensed buses remains close to the number officially registered, at somewhere between 3,000 and 4,000.
Furthermore, approximately 1, 000 buses that had been operating for twenty or more years have been removed from the streets.
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