public transit

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   a public transportation system for moving passengers

   Broadertransportation system

   Narrowerrapid transit

   Partstransit line

Questions about public transit

What does public transit mean?

public transit means "a public transportation system for moving passengers".

Is public transit a common word?

public transit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.