workstation

CEFRB1

/ˈwɝkˌsteɪʃən/

noun

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At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

A desktop computer, normally more powerful than a normal PC and often dedicated to a specific task, such as graphics.

In context

Holonyms: workplace, workstead
Near-synonym: workspace
Lamb ignored her, surveying her team instead, who were at their own or each other's workstations, and engrossed in their current tasks, and studying every move he made.

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All train movements on the Far North Line have been controlled by a Radio Electronic Token Block workstation at Inverness since 1995, having already been introduced on the Kyle Line some 11 years earlier.
2021 October 20, Paul Stephen, “Leisure and pleasure on the Far North Line: Radio Electronic Token Block”, in RAIL, number 942, page 48
Lamb ignored her, surveying her team instead, who were at their own or each other's workstations, and engrossed in their current tasks, and studying every move he made.
2010, Mick Herron, Slow Horses, page 299

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From work + station.