station agent
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈsteɪʃən ˈeɪdʒənt/
- US
:
agente de estación
- If you need assistance, the station agent will help you find your platform.
Examples
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- They shot the station agent!
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The station agent worked in here.
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And the station agent could always tell you where the train was right that minute, with no stone left unturned and no surprises.
Fiction book (1999) -
Where's the station agent?
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The train operators, conductors, station agents, signal operators, and infrastructure maintainers required to operate Rockaway
Blog text (24) -
At the busy terminal, the station agent was responsible for managing all train schedules.
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You can purchase tickets from the station agent at the front desk.
Synonyms
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5.8
A person in charge of a train station
How Senior
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6.0
- UK
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5.8
- US
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'station' (a transport facility) + 'agent' (a person who acts/represents) yields someone who acts/works at a station. This straightforward compound follows common noun+noun formation and is cross‑linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner knowing both words can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The compound noun station agent comes from the early days of trains, where an agent at the station desk sold tickets, helped passengers and looked after the place. So the phrase means the person 'in charge' of running and managing a railway station.