petrol pump
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- noun
- /ˈpɛtrəl pʌmp/
- UK
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bombona de gasolina
- Thus, the Taliban's efforts to import satellite telephone systems to Kabul, rebuild shattered roads, set up petrol pumps, and repair workshops for trucks were probably prompted by a desire to make the drug-smuggling networks more efficient, not to provide basic amenities to the population.
Examples
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- Ordinary petrol pumps.
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Did you notice that in the last 2 and a half hours of that interminable journey... ...we didn't pass a petrol pump?
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Fully 10% of the government's budget next year will be devoted to capping petrol pump prices.
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Another young fella helped me at the petrol pump because I was too short to see it, and to be honest, I couldn't recall how the petrol pump worked in relation to the hole in the side of the van, and my hair kept getting in front of my face.
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Another young fella helped me at the petrol pump because I was too short to see it, and to be honest, I couldn't recall how the petrol pump worked in relation to the hole in the side of the van, and my hair kept getting in front of my face.
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Three five-star hotels, a petrol pump in Colaba, the CST station, the Cama Hospital, all come under attack.
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The first part of this article (18 July 2012) talked about the energy insecurity of the rich—failure to get what they want when they want it—switching on electricity, turning on the gas pipe, pressing the handle at the petrol pump—at prices they want to pay, or mere fear of such.
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I stopped at the petrol pump to fill my car with gasoline before the long drive ahead.
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After driving for hours, we finally found a petrol pump to refuel our vehicle.
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He checked the prices at the petrol pump to see which station offered the best deal.
Synonyms
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A machine at a service station that fills a car with fuel
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A machine at a gas station that fills cars with gasoline
A pump at a service station that gives fuel to cars from underground tanks
How Powerful
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'petrol' (fuel) + 'pump' (machine that moves fluids) yields a machine for dispensing petrol. This noun–noun compound follows regular English composition patterns and is cross-linguistically obvious, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.
Etymology
The compound noun petrol pump comes from early filling stations where workers used a hand pump to bring petrol up from underground tanks into cars. That's why today petrol pump means the machine you go to 'fill' your car's tank.