filling station

English

Noun

filling station (plural filling stations)

1. A facility which sells fuel and lubricants for motor vehicles.
   • 1948 August, Aldous Huxley, Ape and Essence, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, →OCLC:

     Here and there, under the porches of ruined filling stations, in the gaping doorways of office buildings, lie heaps of human bones.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

• petrol filling station

Translations

gas station — see gas station