service station

noun

1
2
: a place at which some service is offered

Examples of service station in a Sentence

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At one point in the late ’70s, during one of California’s periodic gasoline supply crises, Goggin introduced a bill to prohibit oil companies from owning service stations. Dan Walters, Orange County Register, 5 Feb. 2025 There were grocery stores, dry cleaners, service stations and confectionaries, a pharmacy and a doctor, a hotel and a movie theater, a barber shop, a malt shop and a shoe repair shop. Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025 Sales in 2023 rose 22% to £1.1 billion as the chain also pushed further into suburbs in its home market, with shops at motorway service stations and cities including Bradford. Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Europe, 17 Sep. 2024 Her father worked in a chemical plant and ran the Glasper Bros. service station with her uncle. Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for service station

Word History

First Known Use

1916, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of service station was in 1916

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“Service station.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/service%20station. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.

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