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bus war

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

Noun

bus war (plural bus wars)

  1. 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.1988, Bargaining Report
    • 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.2007, Alan Griffiths, Stuart Wall, Applied Economics, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 234

Forms of bus war

pluralbus wars

Origin of bus war

From bus + war.

Questions about bus war

What does bus war mean?
Bus war means a strategy of scheduling very large numbers of buses on a route in order to swamp competition from other bus operators.
What part of speech is bus war?
Bus war is a noun.
What is the plural of bus war?
The plural of bus war is bus wars.

Words near bus war in the dictionary

  1. bus test
  2. bus topologies
  3. bus topology
  4. bus trap
  5. bus traps
  6. bus war
  7. bus wars
  8. bus-holder
  9. bus-holders
  10. bus-keeper
  11. bus-keepers

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