Omnibus

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Omnibus is a Latin word meaning "for all (people)" and has several meanings in standard English:

• bus, a vehicle for transporting large numbers of people
• Omnibus, a law which covers many different subjects, or has had many unrelated additions tacked onto it.
• omnibus (account), An investment term for an account between two or more brokers (i.e. futures) which involves the transactions of individual accounts that are combined into one account. This allows for easier management by brokers. It also protects the identities of the individual account holders. This term can also be used when referring to brokerage firms when used as a third-party retailer of mutual fund shares.
• omnibus (media), a book, video, or movie collecting two or more previous works by the same author, director, theme, or other unifying criterion
• omnibus (broadcast), a compilation of daily episodes for some programs
• Omnibus (song), a song by trance artist Lautsprecher
• omnibus (survey), a survey in which data on a wide variety of subjects is collected during the same interview
• Omnibus (TV series), a BBC broadcast program
• Omnibus (US TV series), a series focusing on cultural affairs, broadcast 1952–1961
• Omnibus, an album by Decemberists singer/songwriter Colin Meloy's first band Tarkio.
• Omnibus progression, a sequence of chords which effectively divides an octave into 4 equal parts.
• Omnibus Press, a British publisher of books
• Omnibus Promotion, an audio and sound effects production company located in Japan
• Homnibus, a friend of Papa Smurf in the comic and cartoon The Smurfs
• The I/O bus used on certain PDP-8 computers manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation.
• The name of a song from British band XTC from their Nonsuch (album) album.

[edit] Note

Omnibus had no plural in Latin, because it was already a plural word. In English, its plural is "omnibuses", not "omnibi", which is a solecism.

[edit] See also

• Omnibus spending bill, a bill that sets the budget of many departments of the United States government at once.
• Omnibus hearing, a pretrial hearing.
• Omnibus Wind Ensemble
• The man on the Clapham omnibus
• Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno