bussed

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/bʌst/
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/bʌst/ · /bʊst/

Definition of bussed

8 senses · 2 parts of speech

adj

  1. Having or involving transportation by bus.
    “The percentage of patients who missed their scheduled appointment was 19 percent for the bussed and 51 percent for the nonbussed group (P < 0.001).”
    “In the 2012 academic year, a total of 13,366 bussed school centers were provided within the scope of bussed education. In that same year, a total of 109,058 school buses were used to transport students to bussed education school centers.”
    “Reporters started catching wind of the story, but they quickly learned there was a problem with the bussed protestors narrative.”
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adj

  1. Having or involving transportation by bus.
    “The percentage of patients who missed their scheduled appointment was 19 percent for the bussed and 51 percent for the nonbussed group (P < 0.001).”
    “In the 2012 academic year, a total of 13,366 bussed school centers were provided within the scope of bussed education. In that same year, a total of 109,058 school buses were used to transport students to bussed education school centers.”
    “Reporters started catching wind of the story, but they quickly learned there was a problem with the bussed protestors narrative.”
  2. (US)Involving desegregation through bussing from the inner city to the suburbs.
    “Originally, the bussed students were not integrated into the receiving schools, but were treated as separate administrative units.”
    “Then I focus on the bussed students' school experience, highlighting their beliefs about the variability and malleability of school rules and procedures, their self-expression of critical attitudes and beliefs, and how suburban school staff promoted particular cultural skills and beliefs.”
    “Many of the bussed students took public transportation so they could stay after school and work on the play.”
    “Since it was though that the bussed students did not have the money to pay the fee, the policy was changed so that library privilege to take a book was withheld until the other book was returned, a better policy for all of the students, which I voiced in the teachers lunchroom when the subject of late library books surfaced.”
  3. Having had the remains of a meal removed.
    “[…] he goes in the kitchen to sort through the plates from the bussed tables, picking through the hushpuppies for pieces of fried fish to take home.”
    “He set off, his arm still around Callie, letting her cling to the man who saved her life, practically tripping as they ran past the partially bussed tables .”
    “In the bussed condition (11 tables and 31 people), the residual bones from the chicken wings were removed continuously, and participants were encouraged to serve themselves additional wings.”
  4. Having a bus (electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components)
    “an electrical interconnect connecting said at least one bus wire on said bussed electrical distribution center with said conductive path on said printed circuit board, said electrical interconnect having a flexible bend located between the bussed electrical distribution center and the printed circuit board to provide a flexible interconnection, wherein said electrical interconnect comprises a strain relief loop.”
    “If δ≤max{R_A, C_A}, the bussed array is R_A/ C_A-reconfigurable.”
    “The bussed arrangement also increases the potential for generator damage by increasing the stator current during the LOF event.”
  5. Transferring power by an electrical connection as opposed to using a direct physical coupling.
    “Pantographs on Metroliner cars with bussed couplets may be dropped when complying with the following procedures: […]”
  6. Having been kissed lightly.

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of bus
  2. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of buss

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