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way station
noun
1
: a station set between principal stations on a line of travel (such as a railroad)
2
: an intermediate stopping place
Examples of way station in a Sentence
a way station for truck drivers
Recent Examples on the Web
The person, and the conversation with then, is a beautiful way station on your route.
—Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
His father, the research chief in a chemical factory, was seized and interned at a way station before deportation to an extermination camp, but he was then released under mysterious circumstances.
—Robert D. Hershey Jr., New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
Visits by Bloomberg News to way stations across southwest Ivory Coast in late 2023 revealed the kinks that may interrupt EUDR’s implementation.
—Mumbi Gitau, Fortune Europe, 27 Feb. 2024
That Underground Railroad, contrary to what many people think, was not an actual railroad, but was a network of locations of which churches, Black and white, became crucial way stations or stops along the pathway to freedom.
—Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 25 Feb. 2024
Every single one of the club’s previous triumphs in the Champions League has proved no more than a way station on a road to disappointment.
—Rory Smith, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
In the United States, immigrant neighborhoods have typically functioned as liminal spaces, way stations for nascent Americans en route to a less conspicuous life.
—Ligaya Mishan David Chow, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
Today the David Dead Sea Resort and Spa serves as way station, as an evacuation camp for members of one the communities hit hardest by the Hamas surprise attack six weeks ago — one that lost 10 percent of its residents in a single day.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
Better to look to private equity or a consolidation inside of pure-play broadcast station groups (which may be a way station to private equity).
—Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1840, in the meaning defined at sense 1
Dictionary Entries Near way station
Cite this Entry
“Way station.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/way%20station. Accessed 23 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
way station
noun
: a station or stopping place along a line of travel (as a railroad line)
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