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Omnibus Bill Public Including Things Eager Home Vacation

word omnibus
definition Of or including many things.
eg_sentence Eager to go home for vacation, Senate leaders assembled an omnibus bill to tie up the loose ends on dozens of unrelated projects.
explanation In Latin, omnibus means “for all.” So an omnibus bill in Congress packages several measures together, an omnibus survey may poll the public on a wide range of issues, and an omnibus edition of a writer's stories may bring together just about all of them. As a noun, omnibus used to mean a large vehicle for public transportation—that is, “for all” who could pay the fare—but around 1900 the word began to be shortened to simply bus.
IPA ˈɑmnəbəs

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