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work station

work station is the alternative form of workstation.

Meaning of workstation

Noun

workstation (plural workstations)

  1. A desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics.
    • All train movements on the Far North Line have been controlled by a Radio Electronic Token Block workstation at Inverness since 1995, having already been introduced on the Kyle Line some 11 years earlier.2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line: Radio Electronic Token Block”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48
  2. An area, at a workplace, for a single worker.
    • Holonyms: workplace, workstead
    Synonyms:
    workspace, workstead

Forms of work station

pluralwork stations

Questions about work station

What is work station the alternative form of?
Work station is the alternative form of workstation.

Words near work station in the dictionary

  1. work someone's tail off
  2. work song
  3. work songs
  4. work spouse
  5. work spouses
  6. work station
  7. work stations
  8. work stealing
  9. work surface
  10. work surfaces
  11. work the angles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: work station (page history and authors); workstation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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