omnibussed

Verb

omnibus (third-person singular simple present omnibuses or omnibusses, present participle omnibusing or omnibussing, simple past and past participle omnibused or omnibussed)

1. (transitive) To combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package.
   • In the tax levy measure were omnibused all appropriations for the maintenance of government for the fiscal year.1927, Denis Tilden Lynch, chapter XXIII, in “Boss” Tweed: The Story of a Grim Generation, New York, N.Y.: Boni & Liveright, →OCLC; reprinted New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002, →ISBN...
2. (dated, intransitive) To drive an omnibus.
   • I'm two shillings short of usual rainy-day fares, and not a passenger is out, I'm certain—least ways can I see him, if there was. It's nice business, omnibusing is—in summer time!1857, A[braham] Oakey Hall, “Trot the Seventh.—A New York Omnibus has a Singular Fare on a Stormy Night, and what Came of It”, in Old Whitey’s Christmas Trot. A Story for the Holidays, New York...
3. (dated, intransitive) To travel or be transported by omnibus.
   • [W]hat would not be the effect on the goods, and even on the passenger traffic, of the Grand Junction and London and Birmingham lines, if two miles of the rails were to-morrow taken up through the town of Birmingham, so that the first (good) had all to be carted, and the second (passengers) had all...1842 February 12, “Observator” [pseudonym], “Liverpool and Manchester and Manchester and Leeds Railways [letter]”, in Supplement to The Railway Times, volume V, number 7, part II (number 215 from the...

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