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Book transport for a lot of people (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

omnibus

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'book' is the definition.
(I know that omnibus is a type of book)

'transport for a lot of people' is the wordplay.
'transport' becomes 'bus' (busing is a kind of transporting).
'for' means one lot of letters go next to another (I've seen this in other clues).
'a lot of people' becomes 'omni' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'bus' put after 'omni' is 'OMNIBUS'.

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(Other definitions for omnibus that I've seen before include "edition of book" , "Volume containing several books" , "A number of books in one" , "collection of novels?" , "Passenger-carrier" .)

I've seen this clue in The Globe and Mail.
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