From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgas stationˈgas ˌstation noun [countable] American EnglishTTC a place where you can buy petrol and oil for motor vehicles SYN petrol station British English
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gas station• I tried it on two teen-agers at a gas station.• In many towns I stopped in, the public buildings were a store, a gas station, and a museum.• She then began pointing to a gas station, or what used to be a gas station.• Dangling from one hand he carried the object he had brought from the corpse-strewn forecourt of the gas station.• Paul was injured during an attempted hold-up of the gas station in which he worked.• At nine o'clock he drove to the gas station two blocks south of the hotel. 