bus-stop flight
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.50 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A regular short-haul flight that carries passengers.
Example Sentences
- "It was a coastal "bus stop" flight, calling at Carnarvon, where banana plantations line the Gascoyne river […]"
- "The only short-haul, inter-city air service in the country is closing down: Channel Airways has announced that its bus-stop flights that went from Southend to Scotland by way of Luton, Bradford and Newcastle […]"
- "Every day RAE runs a special aircraft from Farnborough on a bus-stop flight to these outstations in the same way that industrial groups maintain their own car services."