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Meaning of omnibus




Francisco Valdez Mendoza

omnibus
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Bus ( 41 Spanish;. Dative plural of the Latin "omnis" case: everything for everyone. At the beginning, in the 19th century, this word was part of the French expression «voiture omnibus»: vehicle for all. Consisted in a diligence - carriage - public service, mainly townsman of great passenger capacity. Later use of the term has been extended to other duties: trains, trucks of passengers, trolleybuses, legislation, stage boxes, contract clauses, etc.

  



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