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発音

• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈmɪ.ni.bəs/

名詞

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.

下位語

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

派生語

参考

• minivan

アナグラム

• minisub