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service station

noun

  1. Also called gas station. a place equipped for servicing automobiles, as by selling gasoline and oil, making repairs, etc.
  2. a place that provides some service, as the repair of equipment, or where parts and supplies are sold, provided, dispensed, etc.


service station

noun

  1. a place that supplies fuel, oil, etc, for motor vehicles and often carries out repairs, servicing, etc
  2. a place that repairs and sometimes supplies mechanical or electrical equipment


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Word History and Origins

Origin of service station1

First recorded in 1915–20

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Example Sentences

Its founder, Dhirubhai Ambani, worked in a service station in Yemen in his teens, using his savings to start Reliance in Mumbai in the 1960s.

From Quartz

Worried that new customers would have reservations about eating food from a service station, the family purposely built an open kitchen so that they could show, with full confidence, that their food was fresh and high quality.

From Eater

While Colonial has resumed pipeline operations, service stations throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States were still reporting short supplies of gasoline on Friday.

Of the 15 states, plus the District, affected by the outage, more than 50 percent of service stations in five of them — the District, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia — lacked fuel.

Several states still face fuel shortages, with long lines for gas and some service stations completely empty.

The metal grating of the Showa Shell service station was only half-raised.

Ten minutes later, Delancy drove the get-away car out of the service station.

His eyes turned toward the door leading into the service station office.

I tell them to get out of my sight and go over to the service station and get themselves greased up.

Go to the service station handling the make of car you drive and have it done there.

Went to work with—a friend wanted me to go to work with him in a service station, Conoco Service Station.

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