"bus captain" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From bus + captain.",
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          "ref": "2001, Sintercom, Not ST Forum: Bus fare hike, Google Groups",
          "text": "There is hardly any justification for a fare hike just to pay for and retain the bus captains, which was what SBS's Mrs Cheng had used as a justification."
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          "ref": "2011, Ruth Cheng, TODAY (Singapore), page 13",
          "text": "The bus captain informed her that the journey cost $1.60.",
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Jeanette Tan, Yahoo! News",
          "text": "This includes an annual wage supplement and a year-end annual variable bonus in place of the initial ex-gratia and sign-on bonuses given to Chinese bus captains on two-year contracts like the one He was on.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Kenneth Cheng, TODAY (Singapore) 1 July (Online)",
          "text": "Go-Ahead Singapore, the country’s fourth public bus operator, has raised the basic starting pay of its local bus captains by about 4.6 per cent, in a move that comes on the back of recent pay hikes announced by two of its rivals."
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          "ref": "2017, Zhaki Abdullah, Straits Times",
          "text": "The 34-year-old started his training to be a bus captain in February and has been driving with SBS Transit since April this year.",
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        "A bus driver who also functions as a bus conductor along with other duties such as ensuring proper care for the bus."
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        "(Singapore) A bus driver who also functions as a bus conductor along with other duties such as ensuring proper care for the bus."
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  "etymology_text": "From bus + captain.",
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