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bus war

noun

Etymology

From bus + war.

  1. derived from *wers-✻ — “to mix up, confuse, beat, thresh”
  2. derived from *werʀu✻ — “confusion; quarrel”
  3. derived from werra
  4. derived from guerre//werre
  5. inherited from werre//wyrre
  6. inherited from werre
  7. formed as bus war — “bus + war”

Definitions

  1. A strategy of scheduling very large numbers of buses on a route in order to swamp…

    A strategy of scheduling very large numbers of buses on a route in order to swamp competition from other bus operators.

    • Public Transport Information Unit report that it is passengers who suffer most in this bus war.
    • According to the government's White Paper on the Future of Transport 1998 bus deregulations outside London caused substantial upheaval because of 'bus wars' and confusion over changing service patterns.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA