minibus

noun

1. A small bus, especially one used as transport for small groups.

   “Just south of Durness, at Keoldale, is a passenger-ferry across the Kyle of Durness. It links up during the summer months with a minibus service to the lonely Cape Wrath lighthouse, built of granite in 1827 on a headland 400 ft above the sea.”

2. (South-Africa)A sixteen-seater vehicle used as a taxi.

   “Police are still searching for the gunmen who hijacked the minibus carrying school pupils taking two of the children with them.”

3. (historical)A small four-wheeled carriage.
4. (US)A combined spending bill for multiple departments that is smaller than an omnibus bill.

   “The minibus is the first of two funding packages the House hopes to pass this month.”