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battle stations

battle stations is the plural of battle station.

Meaning of battle station

Noun

battle station (plural battle stations)

  1. The position taken by a member of a military force when preparing for battle.
    • Man your battle stations!
  2. (colloquial) The setup that one uses to play video games on a computer.
    • In gaming and DevOps, you have to share your battle station […] You also have to share all of your tools and work on the same problems at the same time with people either in the same room or all over the world.2016 October 19, Maggie Gourlay, “5 Ways Testing Games Trained Me for Testing DevOps Applications”, in VictorOps, retrieved 12 Jan 2021
  3. A space station equipped primarily for combat.
    • Nothing looked more unominous on such a nice day than a planet-killing battle station swooping around in the blue.2017, Anne Tenino, E. J. Russell, For a Good Time, Call... (page 132)

Interjection

  1. An alert aboard a warship, summoning the crew to man all weapons and all stations.

Synonyms of battle stations

Questions about battle stations

What does battle stations mean?
Battle stations means an alert aboard a warship, summoning the crew to man all weapons and all stations.
What is battle stations the plural of?
Battle stations is the plural of battle station.
What part of speech is battle stations?
Battle stations is an interjection.

Words near battle stations in the dictionary

  1. battle royales
  2. battle royals
  3. battle ship
  4. battle ships
  5. battle station
  6. battle stations
  7. battle tank
  8. battle tanks
  9. battle taxi
  10. battle taxis
  11. battle waggon

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