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OMNIBUS (Lat. " for all ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 104 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OMNIBUS (
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Lat. " for all ")  , a large closed public
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conveyance with seats for passengers inside and out (see
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CARRIAGE) . The name, colloquially shortened to " bus," was, in the
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form voiture
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omnibus, first used for such conveyances in
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Paris in 1828, and was taken by Shillibeer for the vehicle he ran on the
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Paddington road in 1829 . The word is also applied to a
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box at the
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opera which is shared by several subscribers, to a
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bill or
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act of
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parliament dealing with a variety of subjects, and in
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electrical
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engineering to the
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bar to which the terminals of the generators are attached and from which the current is taken off by the wires supplying the various consumers .

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