station
/ˈsteɪʃən/ verb C1- To put in place to perform a task. · The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors.· I was stationed on the pier.
- To put in place to perform military duty. · They stationed me overseas just as fighting broke out.· I was stationed at Fort Richie.
- To play in the manner of a calling station.
He/she/it stations · Past stationed · Past participle stationed · -ing form stationing
Verb forms
- Base form
- station
- He/she/it
- stations
- Past
- stationed
- Past participle
- stationed
- -ing form
- stationing
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They had been seen together at Euston Station about half-past eight on the evening of the third.
You see, I argued that if Drebber and his companion had become separated, the natural course for the latter would be to put up somewhere in the vicinity for the night, and then to hang about the station again next morning.”
“He’d ha’ found hisself in the station if we hadn’t been so took up.”
The regiment was stationed in India at the time, and before I could join it, the second Afghan war had broken out.
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