minibus

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

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɪ.ni.bəs/

• Audio (General American):

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minibus (plural minibuses or minibusses)

1. A small bus, especially one used as transport for small groups.

   Synonym: jitney

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 157:

     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. (South Africa) A sixteen-seater vehicle used as a taxi.

   Synonym: kombi

   • 2006 May 13, Weekend Argus, 14, p.6:

     Police are still searching for the gunmen who hijacked the minibus carrying school pupils taking two of the children with them.

3. (historical) A small four-wheeled carriage.
4. (US politics) A combined spending bill for multiple departments that is smaller than an omnibus bill.
   • 2020 July 25, Danielle Haynes, “House passes 4-bill spending package”, in UPI:

     The minibus is the first of two funding packages the House hopes to pass this month.

• (small bus): marshrutka (shared taxi minibuses in former Soviet states); maxicab (shared taxi minibuses in Hong Kong)

• minivan

• minisub

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪnɪbus]

minibus m inan

1. minibus

Probably borrowed from English minibus. Equivalent to mini- +‎ bus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.niˌbʏs/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: mi‧ni‧bus

minibus m (plural minibussen, diminutive minibusje n)

1. minibus, minivan

From mini- +‎ bus.

• IPA^(key): /mi.ni.bys/

• Audio:

  (file)

minibus m (plural minibus)

1. minibus

• “minibus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From English mini- +‎ bus.

minibus m (invariable)

1. minibus (small bus)

From mini- +‎ bus.

• IPA^(key): /miˈɲi.bus/
• Rhymes: -ibus
• Syllabification: mi‧ni‧bus

minibus m animal or m inan

1. minibus (small bus, especially one used as transport for small groups)

• minibus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• minibus in Polish dictionaries at PWN