transfer station
a place where residential garbage and commercial wastes are compressed, baled, and loaded on vehicles for moving to disposal sites, as for landfill.
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How to use transfer station in a sentence
Kansas City is also a transfer station for the cotton destined for China.
Commercial Geography | Jacques W. RedwayI asked a starter at the transfer station the way to Dover Street, and he told me to get on a car that was just coming in.
The Promised Land | Mary AntinWe marched down through the crowd to the transfer station, after the Philadelphia troops left to go to the round-house.
Upon my arrival at the transfer station, I took a view of the station myself.
However, we marched down by the gate-way, and marched through the crowd, and to the transfer station.
British Dictionary definitions for transfer station
NZ a municipal depot where rubbish is sorted for recycling or relocation to a landfill site
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