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Once Suicidal and Shipped Off, Now Suing Nevada

By RICK LYMAN

A lawsuit on behalf of a group of homeless and mentally ill people claims they were bused out of Nevada and left in San Francisco with little or no medication.

bus

Syllabification: (bus)

Pronunciation: /bəs/

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noun (plural buses or busses)

• 1a large motor vehicle carrying passengers by road, especially one serving the public on a fixed route and for a fare: [as modifier]:a bus service

• 2 Computing a distinct set of conductors carrying data and control signals within a computer system, to which pieces of equipment may be connected in parallel.

verb (buses, bused, busing or busses, bussed, bussing)

• 1 [with object] transport in a communal road vehicle:managerial staff was bused in and out of the factory
• North American transport (a child of one race) to a school where another race is predominant, in an attempt to promote racial integration.

• 2 [with object] North American remove (dirty tableware) from a table in a restaurant or cafeteria:I’d never bused so many dishes in one night
• remove dirty tableware from (a table):Chad buses tables on weekends

Phrases

throw someone under the bus

informal, chiefly US cause someone else to suffer in order to save oneself or gain personal advantage:the government is ready to throw rural voters under the bus