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bus buddy

bus buddy noun: a person (either employed or volunteer) who helps aged or disabled people to use public transport.

Noun

bus buddy (plural bus buddies)

  1. A person (either employed or volunteer) who helps aged or disabled people to use public transport.
  2. A student who is paired with another student when riding a school bus.
    • Mark Flint, who teaches kindergarten in a small rural school in central New York, was disturbed when several of his students complained that they were being picked on by older students on the bus. He is now trying to start a “bus buddies” program whereby each of his children will have an older...2009 September 2, Thomas Lickona, Educating for Character: How Our Schools Can Teach Respect and Responsibility, New York City: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 334

Forms of bus buddy

pluralbus buddies

Questions about bus buddy

What does bus buddy mean?
Bus buddy means a person (either employed or volunteer) who helps aged or disabled people to use public transport.
What part of speech is bus buddy?
Bus buddy is a noun.
What is the plural of bus buddy?
The plural of bus buddy is bus buddies.

Words near bus buddy in the dictionary

  1. bus boy
  2. bus boys
  3. bus bridge
  4. bus bridges
  5. bus buddies
  6. bus buddy
  7. bus bulb
  8. bus bulbs
  9. bus captain
  10. bus captains
  11. bus conductor

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