Infrastructure and Industry
- Bump (road), where two routes both turn in opposite directions at an intersection
- Speed bump, a raised portion of road designed to slow traffic
- Coal mine bump, a seismic jolt occurring within a mine
- Bump (union), in a unionised work environment, a re-assignment of jobs on the basis of seniority
- Bumper (broadcasting), in broadcasting, a brief announcement
- Bump, airline travel slang for the removal of passengers from an overbooked flight
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“As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside in the White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.”
—Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884)
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