pumping station
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- noun
- Specialized
:
estación de bombeo
- Opinions of probable construction costs were developed for the various alternative pumping station designs.
- sewage pumping stations
- wastewater pumping station
- Raw sewage pumping stations
Examples
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Nowadays, power-driven pumping engines do the job, including one of the largest water screw pumping stations in Europe.
Academic text (2006) -
This is the city's main pumping station for downtown Manhattan.
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We just left the master pumping station for the entire black sea transfer.
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Look, he could be on his way to the pumping station right now.
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What is the significance of this pumping station to you?
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If that thing's in the pipe, it can be in the pumping station in minutes.
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It's got a feeder pipe that leads right to the pumping station.
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Operations were observed, and the actual pumping station O&M personnel were interviewed.
Academic text (1998) -
The 15 agencies had more than 2,700 raw sewage pumping stations among them.
Academic text (1998) -
The city's main pumping station supplies fresh water to thousands of residents.
Synonyms
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3.5
A small building that holds machines to move water for a town or farm
How Big
- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is directly compositionally built from 'pump' (to move liquid/gas) + 'station' (a building/facility), so its meaning — a facility where pumps operate to move fluids — is predictable from the parts. This is a common, cross-linguistically transparent compound/modified-noun pattern in English, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The name pumping station gives a simple, literal picture: a building where big pumps work and a station is the place for them. So, it means a place that uses machines to 'move' 'water' or 'sewage' from one place to another.