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power station

noun

, Electricity.
  1. a generating station.


power station

noun

  1. an electrical generating station
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of power station1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

Always have extra rechargeable batteries on hand for long trips where you might be spending lots of time outdoors without access to a power station.

Beyond Denmark, the sea-based power station will supply electricity to several countries bordering the North Sea, likely including the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK.

These methods would enable us to construct the power stations in space.

A space-based solar power station could orbit to face the sun 24 hours a day.

Despite these drawbacks, portable power stations are useful tools for anyone who wants to stay connected in situations when their wall outlets aren’t available.

And so, in a lesser-known breakthrough, Edison went on to build the first electrical power station and system.

The power station, the port, government buildings, and private homes have all fallen prey to Operation Protective Edge.

Another one in Dark Knight is when Batman is standing in front of the fire in Battersea Power Station.

Now nuclear power-station designs and safety systems are capable of withstanding much more serious accidents [than Chernobyl].

The Power Station studio is hushed; there is a barely audible footfall, then Dylan strikes a single piano key.

We had to press on thirty miles up a 'light railway' to a power-station, a settlement by a waterfall in the wild.

He had travelled all the way from Naples, Heaven knows how, to find his two sons, supposed to be working in the power-station.

Arrival at the great concrete building and the little shacks of the power-station shook us to our feet.

It may be compared to an electric power station, which distributes its current to every part of a town.

Deschamps said, coughing, as they left the power station behind them.

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