airbus

Definitions

1. A European multinational commercial aircraft manufacturer.
2. An aircraft produced by the Airbus consortium.
3. A subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one.

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Examples

“Before he and my mother were killed together in a holiday air-bus crash⟳ five years later, they had seen the new companies drive⟳ all competing oils off the market and those of us who had been in at the beginning apparently well set⟳ for life.”

“The new plane was the first Airbus in the airline's fleet.”

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