Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Portuguese term or phrase:
ônibus lotação
English translation:
Jitney (a small bus that carries passengers over a regular route on a flexible schedule)..
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airmailrpl
Aug 14, 2016 16:38
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Portuguese term
ônibus lotação
Portuguese to English
Marketing
Automotive / Cars & Trucks
Public transport
Há correspondente desse tipo de transporte público nos EUA? Como traduziriam? Obrigada!
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Aug 19, 2016 10:25: airmailrpl changed "Edited KOG entry" from "<a href="/profile/2088454">Anne Savaris's</a> old entry - "ônibus lotação"" to ""Jitney (a small bus that carries passengers over a regular route on a flexible schedule)""
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airmailrpl
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Jitney
ônibus lotação => Jitney
Jitney may refer to:
share taxis that competed with streetcars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitney
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Definition of jitney
plural jitneys
1 slang : nickel 2a(1)
2 [from the original 5 cent fare] : bus 1a; especially : a small bus that carries passengers over a regular route on a flexible schedule
Jitneys weren't worth a dime - just a nickel. In the early 1900s, jitney was slang for "nickel," but it wasn't long before the term was applied to a new mode of public transportation that only cost a nickel. When they were introduced in American cities at the beginning of the century, vehicular jitneys could be any automobiles that carried passengers over a set route for a cheap fare, but eventually the term was applied specifically to small buses.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jitney
Jitney may refer to:
share taxis that competed with streetcars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitney
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Note added at 19 hrs (2016-08-15 12:33:31 GMT)
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Popularity: Bottom 40% of words
Definition of jitney
plural jitneys
1 slang : nickel 2a(1)
2 [from the original 5 cent fare] : bus 1a; especially : a small bus that carries passengers over a regular route on a flexible schedule
Jitneys weren't worth a dime - just a nickel. In the early 1900s, jitney was slang for "nickel," but it wasn't long before the term was applied to a new mode of public transportation that only cost a nickel. When they were introduced in American cities at the beginning of the century, vehicular jitneys could be any automobiles that carried passengers over a set route for a cheap fare, but eventually the term was applied specifically to small buses.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jitney
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Comment: "Obrigada pelo esforço de todos para encontrar um termo adequado. Acabei usando jitney com uma breve descrição entre parênteses, pensando em SP, onde os lotações passam na parada e gritam a destinação, pagando-se em dinheiro para quem fornece o serviço naquela ocasião. Agora sei que não funciona assim em todas as cidades do Brasil!"
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Ward Whittaker
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Small well appointed low capacity privately owned buses operating on public routes as an alternative
If you are talking about the ones like we have here in POA Anne, the small red ones. there is no equivalent in English and "private buses" won't work because the many of the public bus companies here have been privatized. I thing the best thing to do is use the Brazilian term and supply a description like the one I've offered.
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.........to conventional buses.
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.........to conventional buses.
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Sormane Gomes
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private buses
They're called "private buses" but it all depends on the context you're working in
Travelling in Colombo | Visit Colombo
visitcolombo.com/content/17-buses
Private buses rely on the number of passengers the conductors can squeeze in ... passengers can request the driver to halt the bus at a certain place en route.
Crackdown on private buses - The New Indian Express
www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/article438816.ece... New Indian Express
Jun 17, 2010 - HYDERABAD: Private buses will no longer be allowed to park or halt for passengers at Ameerpet, Punjagutta and in the vicinity of the Nizam ...
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Another option would be "fee/fare-paying shuttle buses."
Like I said, it all depends on your context.
Travelling in Colombo | Visit Colombo
visitcolombo.com/content/17-buses
Private buses rely on the number of passengers the conductors can squeeze in ... passengers can request the driver to halt the bus at a certain place en route.
Crackdown on private buses - The New Indian Express
www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/article438816.ece... New Indian Express
Jun 17, 2010 - HYDERABAD: Private buses will no longer be allowed to park or halt for passengers at Ameerpet, Punjagutta and in the vicinity of the Nizam ...
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Another option would be "fee/fare-paying shuttle buses."
Like I said, it all depends on your context.
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Mario Freitas
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city buses / urban buses
"Ônibus lotação" are the regular urban buses, in some places called only "lotação"
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Ward Whittaker
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Reference:
Difficult one
Small well appointed low capacity privately owned buses operating on public routes as an alternative to conventional buses.
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Charles R. Castleberry
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Reference:
shuttle vans
Mr. Gomes might consider formalizing his option of shuttle buses
http://thebrazilbusiness.com/article/bus-traveling-in-brazil
schroll down to see the section on shuttle vans
http://thebrazilbusiness.com/article/bus-traveling-in-brazil
schroll down to see the section on shuttle vans
Discussion
We would need to check the context to see what they are talking about.