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1830 London Med. Gaz. 5 358/2 It is much to be deplored that there are not regularly-established receiving stations, as near as possible to every place of danger.

1895 Daily News 19 Dec. 5 There is only one branch telegraph receiving-station besides the Central.

1939 War Illustr. 28 Oct. 219/1 An R.A.F. medical receiving station hidden away in the woods ‘somewhere in France’.

2003 I. Chang Chinese in Amer. iii. 30 Once a person had fallen into the hands of coolie traders, it was almost impossible to escape. The victims were locked in filthy, disease-ridden receiving stations.

1849 U.S. Patent 6,328 7/2 The communication transmitted is received and recorded at each receiving-station in the same manner and with the same effects as if made by the single-acting machine.

1977 G. W. H. Lampe God as Spirit ii. 54 Divine communications at the subconscious level, for which the actual recipients had acted simply as passive receiving stations.

2001 Navy News Sept. (Suppl.) 2/2 Boats could send messages via a network of HF receiving stations.