Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
☎️ A coin phone 💳 A payment machine
pay-station

pay-station

5.2
A public telephone you use by putting coins in it
  • noun
  • /ˈpeɪˌsteɪʃən/
  • Archaic
translation icon : teléfono público
  • He searched for loose change to use the pay-station at the train station.

Examples

  • The travelers found a pay-station in the lobby to call a taxi.

  • Before the era of mobile phones, people relied on the nearby pay-station to make important calls.

  • I found a pay-station near the bus stop.

  • Look, there's a pay-station!

  • Before the era of mobile phones, people relied on the nearby pay-station to make important calls.

  • He searched for loose change to use the pay-station at the train station.

  • The travelers found a pay-station in the lobby to call a taxi.

Synonyms

pay-phone
vspay-station
  • Archaic
75 2.0

A public phone you use by putting coins or a card in it

is limited to coin payment only, not card payments

Surface Forms

pay-station singular
pay-stations plural

Morphology

pay-station = pay + station (transparent) = pay + station

The compound 'pay' + 'station' straightforwardly denotes a place or device where payment is made; learners who know 'pay' and 'station' can infer this meaning.

Etymology

Pay-station is simply pay ('to give money') plus station ('a place' like a train station). It was used for public telephones where you put coins in to make a call, so the name tells you it is the place to pay to use a phone.