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1.
a place or position in which a person or thing is normally located.
2.
a stopping place for trains or other land conveyances, for the transfer of freight or passengers.
3.
the building or buildings at such a stopping place.
4.
the district or municipal headquarters of certain public services: police station; fire station; postal station.
5.
EXPANDa place equipped for some particular kind of work, service, research, or the like: gasoline station; geophysical station.
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the position, as of persons or things, in a scale of estimation, rank, or dignity; standing: the responsibility of persons of high station.
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a position, office, rank, calling, or the like.
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Radio and Television.
a.
a studio or building from which broadcasts originate.
b.
a person or organization originating and broadcasting messages or programs.
c.
a specific frequency or band of frequencies assigned to a regular or special broadcaster: Tune to the Civil Defense station.
d.
the complete equipment used in transmitting and receiving broadcasts.
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Military.
a.
a military place of duty.
b.
a semipermanent army post.
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Navy. a place or region to which a ship or fleet is assigned for duty.
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(formerly in India) the area in which the British officials of a district or the officers of a garrison resided.
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Biology. a particular area or type of region where a given animal or plant is found.
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Australian. a ranch with its buildings, land, etc., especially for raising sheep.
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15.
a section or area assigned to a waiter, soldier, etc.; post: The waiter says this isn't his station.
17.
COLLAPSEArchaic. the fact or condition of standing still.
verb (used with object)
18.
to assign a station to; place or post in a station or position.
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Stationing
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Origin:
1350–1400; < Latin statiōn- (stem of statiō) a standing still, standing-place, equivalent to stat(us) (past participle of stāre to stand) + -iōn- -ion; replacing Middle English stacioun < Anglo-French < Latin, as above
1350–1400; < Latin statiōn- (stem of statiō) a standing still, standing-place, equivalent to stat(us) (past participle of stāre to stand) + -iōn- -ion; replacing Middle English stacioun < Anglo-French < Latin, as above
Related forms
sta·tion·al, adjective
in·ter·sta·tion, adjective
re·sta·tion, verb (used with object)
un·sta·tion, verb (used with object)
un·sta·tioned, adjective
Synonyms
1. situation, location. 3. depot, terminal. 7. metier, occupation, trade, business, employment. 15. See appointment. 18. position, locate, establish, set, fix.
1. situation, location. 3. depot, terminal. 7. metier, occupation, trade, business, employment. 15. See appointment. 18. position, locate, establish, set, fix.
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station
c.1280, "place which one normally occupies," from O.Fr. station, from L. stationem (nom. statio) "a standing, post, job, position," related to stare "to stand," from PIE base *sta- "to stand" (see stet). The meaning "place for a special purpose" (e.g. polling station) is first
EXPANDrecorded 1823; radio station is from 1912. The meaning "regular stopping place" is first recorded 1797, in reference to coach routes; applied to railroads 1830. Meaning "each of a number of holy places visited in succession by pilgrims" is from c.1380, hence Station of the Cross (1553). The verb meaning "to assign a post or position to" is attested from 1748. Station wagon in the automobile sense is first recorded 1929, from earlier use for a horse-drawn conveyance that took passengers to and from railroad stations (1894). Station house "police station" is attested from 1836.
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