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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“What more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more … a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from labor the bread it has earned.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)