way station 
noun North American
1A stopping point on a journey: the hotel was a way station for all the aid workers who passed through the city Anchorage is a way station on the great circle route figurative experts think the cellular field is only a way station to more complex technologies...
- What's new is the belief that the workplace is no longer a mere way station on the journey to children and a home.
- It's generally recognized that many illegals go to Canada with a primary purpose of using it as a way station on the trek to the U.S.
- It has been a military base, a way station for boat people and a prison camp for suspects captured in Afghanistan.
1.1A minor station on a railway.When Brennan rides up to the way station, the stationmaster confesses that he is lonely out in the wilderness, and that being lonely is no way to live.
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