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minibus
/ˈmɪ.ni.bəs/
noun 4
Collocations
3VERB + MINIBUS
hijacked
MINIBUS + NOUN
passengers, persons, pupils, room, school
PREP.
up, with
Definitions
noun
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.
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.
4
A combined spending bill for multiple departments that is smaller than an omnibus bill.
The minibus is the first of two funding packages the House hopes to pass this month.
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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 i
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Police are still searching for the gunmen who hijacked the minibus carrying school pupils taking two of the children with them.
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The minibus is the first of two funding packages the House hopes to pass this month.
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This minibus holds 25 persons.
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Yanni was picked up by a minibus.
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This minibus seats twenty-five passengers.
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