debusv.
/diːˈbʌs/ Originally Army slang.
intransitive. To alight from motor transport.
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > practise logistics [verb (transitive)] > transport > by bus > board or alight from transport
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embus1915
1915 G. Adam Behind Scenes at Front iv. 126 The battalion has ‘embussed’, as the orders now phrase it, ‘at X, and will debuss at Y’.
1915 Times 12 Mar. 10/1 The words ‘embuss’ and ‘debuss’ have been consecrated in Staff orders. Many is the battalion which has received orders to ‘embuss’ at dusk at X, and ‘debuss’ at Z.
1917 Times 28 Sept. 9/5 This Division had already had a very hard time... From the moment of ‘de-busing’ its life was made very difficult for it.
1927 Observer 13 Nov. 17/5 One of the officers..announced..that the infantry were ‘de-busing’.
1958 P. Scott Mark of Warrior i. 20 The cadets arrived in trucks... They debussed in a tarmac-laid square.
Derivatives
deˈbusing n. (also de'bussing)
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society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > [noun] > transporting > boarding or alighting from transport
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busing1923
debusing1962
1962 Times 26 Oct. (Suppl.) p. v/7 All are close to a car park and debussing station.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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