bus service
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- noun
- /bʌs ˈsɜrvɪs/
- The MTA resumed limited bus service on Oct. 30, the day after Hurricane Sandy.
Examples
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The city has lost about half of its bus service since 2005.
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Her employer is located outside the city, and bus service is infrequent.
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If they shut down this bus service, I will drive you to work myself.
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Unfortunately, rising fuel costs also make providing bus service that much more expensive.
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The county is being forced to cut back on bus service in Seattle.
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They want to cut bus service until they finish construction.
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IBP set up a bus service in Mexico to bring workers into the United States.
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Mr. Bloomberg said more bus service could be restored by Wednesday.
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Local, Limited-Stop, and Express Bus service will operate as close to a normal weekday schedule as possible today.
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The local bus service operates every 30 minutes, making it easy for residents to commute to work.
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Morphology
The meaning 'a system in which buses operate' is directly and compositionally derived from 'bus' (the vehicle) + 'service' (provision/operation), so a learner who knows both words can infer the compound meaning. This is a common, cross-linguistic pattern for naming transport systems and follows standard English noun + service composition, making it immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
The compound bus service comes from the simple idea of a bus giving a regular service to people. Imagine the same buses running the same route at set times to 'carry people' — that's why it means the system of buses that run on set routes to transport passengers.