garage
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- noun
- /ɡəˈrɑːʒ/
:
taller
- Every Saturday, he works at the garage to help fix customers' cars.
- a repair garage
And she got us into the Mercedes garage and gave us a tour, which was like unbelievable.
- And she got us into the Mercedes garage and gave us a tour, which was like unbelievable.
- Although Jack's car is fixed now, the garage he goes to were brilliant and the guy fixed it.
- There was, Kohlberger observed, taking his Hyundai in for servicing at a garage in Effort, PA, not far from his parents home.
- But yeah, my dad told me a story where he was like, he, because he worked at the bus garage, you know, he, he hated his job oldies.
- You know, work, work in some in some garage checking the the pollutions that are coming out of that exhaust pipe from a car.
- He would own a he would own a franchise of garages.
- He starts buying all the cars from his mate in Oldham from a garage and he's called Colin Heaney his mate.
- And he, he, he bottled someone there and we left there and we got to the roundabout and there was a, a garage, Toyota garage.
Examples
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I met a guy named Red; he owns a garage and could have some work in about a week.
Fiction book (1990) -
They found his car parked in some private garage.
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"Her picture was up on the wall in the garage where he works on his truck.
Fiction book (1993) -
Let's go to the garage.
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Yeah, I've been to his garage with all the old cars.
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Just call Abe out at the garage and have him send out a tow truck, okay?
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"If this weren't India," I said, "the garage might have replaced the starter by now."
Fiction book (1992) -
I remember we went home in my car because Polly's was in the garage being repaired.
Fiction book (1992) -
Peugeot's Tele-Assistance system is connected to the car while it's in the garage for repair.
Academic text (2002) -
He's living downtown and he's working in a garage to pay tuition to the University of Chicago.
Synonyms
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A small workshop where someone makes or fixes things by hand
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A place where people fill cars with fuel and get small repairs
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The part of a company that helps customers with problems and fixes products
A large airport building where planes are kept and fixed
Compounds
How Big
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Garage also grew to mean a place where cars are looked after and fixed because it comes from the same French garer ('to shelter'). That's why a garage can be both a parking place and a workshop that cares for vehicles.