shuttle bus
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈʃʌtəl bʌs/
:
autobús lanzadera
- The hotel provides a free shuttle bus to the airport every half hour.
Do I run for it or get on the shuttle bus?
- Do I run for it or get on the shuttle bus?
- Arrived at the parking lot and there's a crowd waiting for a shuttle bus.
- Like you had to get a fucking like shuttle bus to your baggage claim.
- When we try to get on the shuttle bus where we want to get a trim, we can use the Alipay pay that bill.
Examples
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Arrived at the TRI-Rail shuttle bus stop at the north side of Terminal 1.
Blog text (28) -
Right now we're just going to line up to get on our shuttle bus back to the cruise.
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You can catch our shuttle bus just through these doors.
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In a little while, a shuttle bus came by and stopped.
Fiction book (1999) -
What time is the shuttle bus picking us up?
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Well, let's take the shuttle bus.
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We see a group of people filing off an airport shuttle bus.
Fiction book (1993) -
Transit Authority shuttle bus service is available at the Illinois Street exit, south side of the station.
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I took the tube to Heathrow station, then had to catch a shuttle bus.
Fiction book (1995) -
At City Hall, we transferred to the shuttle bus for Dodger Stadium.
Fiction book (2000)
Synonyms
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1.0
A large vehicle that carries many people along a set route
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3.0
A service that runs often between two places, like a bus
How Frequent
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is directly compositional: 'shuttle' (a vehicle making frequent back-and-forth trips) modifies 'bus', so the meaning 'a bus that travels regularly between two points' is transparently derived from the parts. This noun+noun compound is common and has clear equivalents in many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand it.
Etymology
Shuttle bus comes from the idea of a shuttle — something that goes back and forth — plus bus. Imagine a small bus running many times between a hotel and an airport, so it means 'a bus that travels regularly between two places'.