Bus vs Busfare - What's the difference?
bus | busfare |
(automotive) A motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads.
An electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components.
(medical industry, slang) An ambulance.
(transitive, automotive, transport) To transport via a motor bus.
(transitive, automotive, transport, chiefly, US) To transport students to school, often to a more distant school for the purposes of achieving racial integration.
(intransitive, automotive, transport) To travel by bus.
(transitive, US, food service) To clear meal remains from.
(intransitive, US, food service) To work at clearing the remains of meals from tables or counters; to work as a busboy.
The passenger fare charged for riding on a bus.
* 1997 Ruth Nduati, Wambui Kiai - Communicating With Adolescents With AIDS
*:. . . young girls take free rides in exchange for sex and also as a way of saving their busfare for their out of pocket spending (Balmer).
As nouns the difference between bus and busfare
is that bus is (automotive) a motor vehicle for transporting large numbers of people along roads while busfare is the passenger fare charged for riding on a bus.As a verb bus
is (transitive|automotive|transport) to transport via a motor bus.bus
English
(wikipedia bus)Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* (vehicle) coach, loser cruiser, motorbus, omnibus * (electrical conductor) electrical bus, busbar, digit trunkDerived terms
{{der3, booze bus , busbar , bus duct , bus lane , short bus , bus route , bus stop , bustitution , back end of a bus, look like the back end of a bus}}Verb
- He bussed tables as the restaurant emptied out.
- He’s been bussing for minimum wage.