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way station

noun

  1. a station intermediate between principal stations, as on a railroad.


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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of way station1

An Americanism dating back to 1775–85
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In the end of that book a couple of characters die and they are at this way station to figure out if they are going to go to heaven.

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Rather than as a permanent habitat, early humans probably used this volcanic cave as a way station during migrations between oases.

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In spring, two dozen species of shorebirds use the refuge as a way station — primarily Western sandpipers and dunlin.

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“So they use us as a premeditated way station. They come to Southwest, get hired, trained, spend six months and then they flip their résumé and apply somewhere else.”

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Kalamazoo, a small city in Western Michigan, is a way station along the drug trafficking corridor between Chicago and Detroit.

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