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  • noun Plural form of busman.

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Examples

  • The first results showed a striking difference in busmen: sedentary drivers were more than twice as likely to die of a heart attack as the conductors who went up and down 500 steps a day.

    Julia Moulden: Work After 50? How About 100? Julia Moulden 2010

  • The first results showed a striking difference in busmen: sedentary drivers were more than twice as likely to die of a heart attack as the conductors who went up and down 500 steps a day.

    Julia Moulden: Work After 50? How About 100? Julia Moulden 2010

  • No passengers, no train engineers, no busmen, not even any station attendants.

    Nevermore Jamie Marriott 2010

  • The first results showed a striking difference in busmen: sedentary drivers were more than twice as likely to die of a heart attack as the conductors who went up and down 500 steps a day.

    Julia Moulden: Work After 50? How About 100? Julia Moulden 2010

  • When did busmen first take holidays in such a way, and how did it enter popular culture?

    Cool Tools at the Fair 2007

  • When did busmen first take holidays in such a way, and how did it enter popular culture?

    Which contains some speculative etymology 2007

  • Ten of the PE busmen, whose 1961 strike became 'subversive' in 1964, were also among the victims of Apartheid justice.

    7. BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE 1980

  • Ten of the PE busmen, whose 1961 strike became 'subversive' in 1964, were also among the victims of Apartheid justice.

    8 STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS 1980

  • 'The' busmen and policemen always know, 'said True cheerfully.

    'Me and Nobbles' Amy le Feuvre

  • He took a seat in the front of the 'bus, just behind the driver, for he had often heard stories of the witty sayings of London' busmen and he was anxious to hear a 'bus-driver's wit being uttered.

    The Foolish Lovers St. John G. Ervine 1927

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