Collocations for "station"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "station" in context.
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station
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- [an underground, a subway, a train, a railway] station
- the [next, first, last] station (is)
- get [off, on] at the [next] station
- a [deserted, busy, central] station
- the (local) [police, fire] station
- a gas station
- a [new, medium wave, local, national] radio station
- a [geophysical, weather, space] station
- a docking station for a [device, cell phone, music player]
- will meet you [at, outside] the station
- will pick you up [from, at, outside] the station
- was waiting for her [boyfriend, husband] outside the station
- the guard was [acting, performing] above his station
- the [information desk, ticket office] in the station
- [five, eight] stations from the [city center, airport]
- [getting, starting to get] ideas above his station
- the station [shop, restaurant, entrance, exit, concourse]
- UK: [Windsor] will be your next station stop
- stationed (him) in [Japan]
- the [troops, soldiers] are stationed abroad
- will be stationed overseas
- will be stationed (there) for [two years]
- station throughout the [country, nation, continent]
'station' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
around
- barrier
- bomb
- broadcast
- bus
- cab
- cafeteria
- café
- city
- clock
- close
- cop
- copper
- dart
- dash
- detach
- dial
- diaper
- direct
- direction
- dispatch
- exercise
- exit
- express
- fare
- filling
- fire
- gas
- guide
- hotel
- international
- leaflet
- listen
- local
- locker
- luggage
- man
- master
- military
- mob
- overnight
- petrol
- phone
- pickup
- police
- porter
- power
- presenter
- puff
- punk