bussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌst
ipa: /bʌst/
homophone: bust
Senses: examples: text: 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).
ref: 1971, Howard M. Field, Anthony Jong, “Cost-Effectiveness of Bussing Pupils to a Dental Clinic”, in HSMHA Health Reports, volume 86, page 225:
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: Reporters started catching wind of the story, but they quickly learned there was a problem with the bussed protestors narrative.
ref: 2020, Michael W. Wagner, Mallory R. Perryman, Mediated Democracy:
glosses: Having or involving transportation by bus.
examples: text: Originally, the bussed students were not integrated into the receiving schools, but were treated as separate administrative units.
ref: 1966, Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, page 1008:
text: 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.
ref: 2015, Orlando Patterson, Ethan Fosse, The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth, page 399:
text: Many of the bussed students took public transportation so they could stay after school and work on the play.
ref: 2020, Paula Heariold-Kinney, The Delicate Dance: Living White Being Black, A Memoir, page 154:
text: 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.
ref: 2020, Rita Gilbert Greer, Teacher Journeys:
qualifier: more specifically
glosses: Involving desegregation through bussing from the inner city to the suburbs.
examples: text: […] 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.
ref: 1997, Katherine L. Hester, Eggs for Young America, page 120:
text: 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 .
ref: 2012, Toni McGee Causey, Allison Brennan, Sylvia Day, Guns and Roses:
text: 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.
ref: 2016, Turner Lomand, Social Science Research:
glosses: Having had the remains of a meal removed.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: If δ≤max{R_A, C_A}, the bussed array is R_A/ C_A-reconfigurable.
ref: 2012, F. Lombardi, M.G. Sami, Testing and Diagnosis of VLSI and ULSI, page 442:
text: The bussed arrangement also increases the potential for generator damage by increasing the stator current during the LOF event.
ref: 2017, Donald Reimert, Protective Relaying for Power Generation Systems, page 341:
glosses: Having a bus (electrical conductor or interface serving as a common connection for two or more circuits or components)
examples: text: Pantographs on Metroliner cars with bussed couplets may be dropped when complying with the following procedures: […]
ref: 1973, Special Court Reporter, page NC-12413:
glosses: Transferring power by an electrical connection as opposed to using a direct physical coupling.
glosses: Having been kissed lightly.
Derived terms: unbussed