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单词 station attendant
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station attendant
a. General attributive and objective (in sense 22), as station attendant, station cleaner, station clock, station entrance, station toilet, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.
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1852 Leicester Chron. 28 Aug. Just before the arrival of the train, to her great surprise, the station attendant locked the waiting room door.
1880 Birmingham Daily Post 30 Sept. 5/7 The train left Liverpool at the right time by the station clock, and the first stoppage was at Warrington.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. i. vi. 242 That's the Station Refreshment Rooms,..just opposite.
1936 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 24 July 1/7 Thousands crowded the station entrance and along the route to City hall.
1972 Economist 15 July 60/1 The train needs an enormous back-up staff of ticket collectors and purveyors, station cleaners, signal operators and so on.
1989 D. C. Hunt Lithographs C. B. Wilson 6/2 A more comfortable place than the station waiting room in which to pass the time while waiting for a bus.
2010 M. Kermode It's only Movie v. 203 The station toilet was closed ‘for cleaning’, naturally.
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