minibus

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈmɪ.ni.bəs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A small bus, especially one used as transport for small groups.
    — Just south of Durness, at Keoldale, is a passenger-ferry across the Kyle of Durness. It links up during the summer months with a minibus service to the lonely Cape Wrath lighthouse, built of granite in 1827 on a headland 400 ft above the sea.
  2. A sixteen-seater vehicle used as a taxi. South-Africa
    — Police are still searching for the gunmen who hijacked the minibus carrying school pupils taking two of the children with them.
  3. A small four-wheeled carriage. historical
  4. A combined spending bill for multiple departments that is smaller than an omnibus bill. US
    — The minibus is the first of two funding packages the House hopes to pass this month.

词形变化

minibuses plural minibusses plural

词汇关系

衍生词
midibus
相关词
minivan

词源

From mini- + bus. In the political sense, probably a back-formation from omnibus.
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