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gas station
noun
: a retail station for servicing motor vehicles especially with gasoline and oil
called also service station
Examples of gas station in a Sentence
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Tickets can be purchased in person at gas stations, convenience stores and grocery stores.
—Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024
The show about Southern gas station attendants and diner waitresses ran for a year, and then refueled to go out on tour.
—Stephen Humphries, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2024
Witherspoon’s Draper James flagship stands a couple blocks away from where country music royalty Holly Williams (granddaughter of Hank Williams and daughter of Hank Jr.) turned a former gas station into an outpost of her lifestyle boutique White’s Mercantile.
—Jessica Ritz, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Nov. 2024
Driving south from Bakersville into Asheville, nearly every church, grocery store, gas station, firehouse, and strip mall parking lot had been converted to some sort of supply distribution point or relief hub.
—Jess Craig, Vox, 17 Nov. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1925, in the meaning defined above
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“Gas station.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gas%20station. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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gas station
noun
: a place for servicing motor vehicles especially with gasoline and oil
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