public transport

1. 1.

   conveyance for passengers or mail or freight

   Broaderconveyance

   Narrowerbusdeadheadexpresslocalshuttletrain

   Part oftransportation system

Questions about public transport

What does public transport mean?

public transport means "conveyance for passengers or mail or freight".

Is public transport a common word?

public transport 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.