A bus company has sued a group of French cleaning ladies who carpool to their jobs in Luxembourg.
A bus company has sued a group of French cleaning ladies who
carpool car·pool
n. also car pool
1. An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver.
2. to their jobs in Luxembourg. Transports Schiocchet Excursions Transports Schiocchet Excursions is a French bus company that runs a bus route from Moselle to Luxembourg.
As of 2005, it is involved in litigation against ten cleaning women who share car journeys to work on the same route, accusing them of "unfair and parasitical claims the women are engaged in "unfair and parasitical par·a·sit·ic also par·a·sit·i·cal
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of a parasite.
2. Caused by a parasite: parasitic diseases. competition." They want the court to fine the women and seize their
cars.
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