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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“Do not put off your work until tomorrow and the day after. For the sluggish worker does not fill his barn, nor the one who puts off his work; industry aids work, but the man who puts off work always wrestles with disaster.”
—Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)
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