omnibusses

1. 1
   coaches or booksnoundated

   Plural of omnibus. Dated; the usual spelling today is omnibuses.

   Horse-drawn omnibusses rattled along the avenue, their upper decks packed with commuters.

   The publisher reissued his early novels as two hefty omnibusses.

   Note

   The doubled s marks this spelling of the plural as dated; present-day writing usually has a single s. It still covers the noun's whole range, from horse-drawn passenger vehicles to fat volumes gathering an author's early novels. The same letters also spell the verb's present-tense form, and a number or the in front marks the noun: two omnibusses.

2. 2
   rides or bundlesverb

   Third-person singular simple present of omnibus.

   When time runs short, the leadership omnibusses a dozen minor measures into a single year-end package.

   Every few years the publisher omnibusses the series into a single collected edition.

   Note

   The verb's current home is the legislature, where it takes an object and usually into: the leadership omnibusses a dozen minor measures into one package. The travel and driving uses are dated and stand without an object (he omnibusses into the city). With I, you, we, they or a plural subject the bare form returns: they omnibus the bills.

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