service station

noun

1
2
: a place at which some service is offered

Examples of service station in a Sentence

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Among the incidents, several Tesla cars were set on fire at a service station in Las Vegas. Forum News Service, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2025 Her husband, who owned a Gulf service station in Dundalk’s Gray Manor, died in 1999. Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 21 Mar. 2025 That scale adds further complexities to the modeling of warehouse operations due to congestion, collision avoidance, and understanding how bots need to queue up at various service stations. Steve Banker, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for service station

Word History

First Known Use

1916, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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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 3 Apr. 2025.

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