Usually means: Small bus charging low fares.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. jitney: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jitney: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jitney: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jitney: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jitney: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jitney, jitney: Wordnik
  7. jitney: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jitney: Wiktionary
  9. jitney: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jitney: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jitney: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jitney: Dictionary.com
  13. jitney: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jitney: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jitney (play), Jitney: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. jitney: Rhymezone
  17. jitney: Free Dictionary
  18. jitney: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. jitney: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. jitney: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Jitney: Investopedia
  4. Jitney: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jitney: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jitney: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jitney, jitney, jitney: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Jitney: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jitneying as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (jitney)

noun:  (US, archaic) Synonym of nickel, a 5-cent coin or amount.
noun:  Synonym of minibus, especially one with a scheduled fixed route.
noun:  Synonym of gypsy cab, an unlicensed taxi.
noun:  Synonym of shared taxi, a taxi usually shared with strangers to maximize profitability per trip.
noun:  (Canada) An informal lawn bowling, curling, or darts competition in which all players present are randomly drawn into teams.
noun:  A fraudulent arrangement whereby a broker who has direct access to an exchange executes trades on behalf of a broker who does not.
adjective:  (US, archaic) Synonym of cheap, very inexpensive.

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