Definition of "airbus" []

• A short, medium, or long-range subsonic jet airliner, especially a wide-bodied one. (noun)

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• "Commencing in the mid-1960s, a consortium of European aircraft firms began to collaborate in an attempt to break the lock held by American manufacturers on the commercial aircraft market by agreeing to collectively manufacture a low-cost "airbus" to transport smaller numbers of passengers over shorter distances."
• "Today's "airbus" is austere, devoid of anything soft or comfortable."
• "For Leite de Cobra [pt], the way in which the non-arrival of the airbus and supposed disaster has been treated is outrageous:"