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Definition of station verb from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

     

    station

     verb
    verb
    NAmE//ˈsteɪʃn//
     
    Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they station
     
     he / she / it stations
     
     past simple stationed
     
     -ing form stationing
     
     
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    armed forces
  1. 1[often passive] station somebody + adv./prep. to send someone, especially from one of the armed forces, to work in a place for a period of time troops stationed abroad
    2. go to position
  2. 2station somebody/yourself + adv./prep. (formal) to go somewhere and stand or sit there, especially to wait for something; to send someone somewhere to do this She stationed herself at the window to await his return. A photographer had been stationed at the main entrance.
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