airbus

or air bus

[ air-buhs ]

/ ˈɛərˌbʌs /

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noun

a short-range or medium-range commercial passenger airplane, especially one that is part of a frequent shuttlelike service between two popular destinations.

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Origin of airbus

First recorded in 1905–10; air¹ + bus¹

Words nearby airbus

air brick, air bridge, airbrush, airbrush out, airburst, airbus, air cargo, air carrier, air casing, aircav, air cavalry

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How to use airbus in a sentence

Last March they gave Airbus a huge piece of new business, ordering 169 A320s and 65 of the slightly larger A321.
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Like him, they identified the Airbus A320 as an airplane extremely well fitted to low cost airline operations in Asia.
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They should have pointed the nose of the Airbus down and applied more power.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST
By 2011, Airbus was working on a program to replicate these conditions in a flight simulator for use in pilot training.
Flight 8501 Poses Question: Are Modern Jets Too Automated to Fly?|Clive Irving|January 4, 2015|DAILY BEAST

The wreckage of the Airbus A320 has been located in relatively shallow water.
Who Will Get AsiaAir 8501’s Black Boxes?|Clive Irving|December 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He opened the letter when he had settled down in a comfortable morris chair in the airbus.
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British Dictionary definitions for airbus

Airbus

/ (ˈɛəˌbʌs) /

noun

trademark a commercial aircraft manufactured and marketed by an international consortium of aerospace companies

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