bussed

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌst
• IPA^(key): /bʌst/

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• Homophone: bust

Adjective

bussed

1. Having or involving transportation by bus.
   • 1971, Howard M. Field, Anthony Jong, “Cost-Effectiveness of Bussing Pupils to a Dental Clinic”, in HSMHA Health Reports, volume 86, page 225:

     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).

   • 2018, Hüseyin Avunduk, “A Supply Chain Management Approach for the Bussed Education System from the Standpoint of Bussed Education in Turkey”, in F. Burcu Candan, Hakan Kapucu, editor, Current Debates in Business Studies, page 226:

     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.

   • 2020, Michael W. Wagner, Mallory R. Perryman, Mediated Democracy:

     Reporters started catching wind of the story, but they quickly learned there was a problem with the bussed protestors narrative.

2. (more specifically, chiefly US) Involving desegregation through bussing from the inner city to the suburbs.
   • 1966, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, page 1008:

     Originally, the bussed students were not integrated into the receiving schools, but were treated as separate administrative units.

   • 2015, Orlando Patterson, Ethan Fosse, The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, page 399:

     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.

   • 2020, Paula Heariold-Kinney, The Delicate Dance: Living White Being Black, A Memoir, page 154:

     Many of the bussed students took public transportation so they could stay after school and work on the play.

   • 2020, Rita Gilbert Greer, Teacher Journeys:

     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.
   • 1997, Katherine L. Hester, Eggs for Young America, page 120:

     […] 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.

   • 2012, Toni McGee Causey, Allison Brennan, Sylvia Day, Guns and Roses:

     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 .

   • 2016, Turner Lomand, Social Science Research:

     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)
   • 2001, Anres Eduardo Avilla, David Jay Vess, Kevin Joseph Hawes, Joseph Howard Gladd, Dominic Carano, Richard ALan Natoli, “US 6,220,876 B1: Electrical Interconnect System and Method For Integrationg a Bussed Electrical Distribution Center with a printed Circuit Board”, in Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, page 4064:

     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.

   • 2012, F. Lombardi, M.G. Sami, Testing and Diagnosis of VLSI and ULSI, page 442:

     If δ≤max{R_A, C_A}, the bussed array is R_A/ C_A-reconfigurable.

   • 2017, Donald Reimert, Protective Relaying for Power Generation Systems, page 341:

     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.
   • 1973, Special Court Reporter, page NC-12413:

     Pantographs on Metroliner cars with bussed couplets may be dropped when complying with the following procedures: […]

6. Having been kissed lightly.

Derived terms

• unbussed

 

Verb

bussed

1. simple past and past participle of bus
2. simple past and past participle of buss