noun, plural bus⋅es, bus⋅ses, verb, bused or bussed, bus⋅ing or bus⋅sing.| 1. | a large motor vehicle, having a long body, equipped with seats or benches for passengers, usually operating as part of a scheduled service; omnibus. |
| 2. | a similar horse-drawn vehicle. |
| 3. | a passenger automobile or airplane used in a manner resembling that of a bus. |
| 4. | any vehicle operated to transport children to school. |
| 5. | a low, movable filing cabinet. |
| 7. | Computers. a circuit that connects the CPU with other devices in a computer. |
| 8. | to convey or transport by bus: to bus the tourists to another hotel. |
| 9. | to transport (pupils) to school by bus, esp. as a means of achieving racial integration. |
| 10. | to travel on or by means of a bus: We bused to New York on a theater trip. |
The movement of students from one neighborhood to a school in another neighborhood, usually by bus and usually to break down de facto segregation of public schools.
Note: A Supreme Court decision in 1971 ruling that busing was an appropriate means of achieving integrated schools (see integration) was received with widespread, sometimes violent, resistance, particularly among whites into whose neighborhoods and schools black children were to be bused. In 1991, the Court ruled that school districts could end busing if they had done everything “practicable” to eliminate the traces of past discrimination.