transfer station

noun

Definition of transfer stationnext
as in kitchen midden

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Recent Examples of transfer station Two months after state officials announced plans to shutter a local transfer station in Torrington, Senate lawmakers on Tuesday voted to advance legislation aimed at keeping the facility operating and under public control. — John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 29 Apr. 2026 Platforms at a train transfer station became jammed with passengers unable to get space on trains. — Philip Marcelo, Fortune, 18 Apr. 2026 The system sees this, and their 15 individual cars pull off to a transfer station at the side of the road, where a 15 person van is waiting. — Brad Templeton, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2026 The Gateway station was designed to serve as both a research platform and a transfer station that astronauts would use to board the moon landers before descending to the lunar surface, Reuters reported. — Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for transfer station
Recent Examples of Synonyms for transfer station
  1. sanitary landfill
  2. junkyard
  3. dustbin
  4. landfill
  5. midden
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  • Fiji has more than 330 islands, one sanitary landfill, and two municipal dumps.
    — By Aryn Baker/Lautoka, Fiji , TIME, 3 July 2024
  • Other materials might need to be sent to a hazardous waste landfill that has double the plastic lining in place as a typical sanitary landfill in order to protect groundwater from anything that might otherwise leach into it.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 3 Feb. 2024
Definition of sanitary landfill
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  • Being joyful there — in the Dominican Republic, where small shacks and houses pieced together by junkyard scraps sometimes hold families with over a dozen members — seems incomprehensible.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 25 June 2026
  • Oh, and there’s also the plot following a community of junkyard pussycats competing in a talent show to decide who is allowed to die and be reborn in the Heaviside Layer — cat heaven.
    — CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2026
Definition of junkyard
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  • When selecting a car vacuum, Koukia suggests considering battery life, weight, suction power, dustbin size, and attachments.
    — Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
  • Plus, its dock automatically empties the dustbin, washes and dries the mop pads, and can go up to 65 days between dustbin changes.
    — Sheena Vasani, The Verge, 23 June 2026
Definition of dustbin
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  • The rest is composted; turned into animal feed, biofuels and other industrial products; sold at a deep discount shortly before its use-by date; or disposed of in landfills and incinerators.
    — John Lowrey, The Conversation, 6 July 2026
  • Decomposing food can release hydrogen sulfide, a toxic gas synonymous with landfills and garbage.
    — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of landfill
Noun
  • The Granada cemetery and midden, a discard mound, extended to some 25 acres originally.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 June 2026
  • But this is the first time archaeologists have actually unearthed a midden with evidence that people added to it regularly for so many generations.
    — ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
Definition of midden

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