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