Usually means: Stopover point for travelers, goods.
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  1. way station: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. way station: Merriam-Webster
  3. way station: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. way station: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. way station: Collins English Dictionary
  6. way station: Vocabulary.com
  7. way-station, way station: Wordnik
  8. way station: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. way station: Wiktionary
  10. way station: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. way station: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. way station: Dictionary.com
  13. The Way Station, Way Station (band), Way Station (novel), Way Station, Way station: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. way station: Rhymezone
  15. way station: FreeDictionary.org
  16. way station: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. way station: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See way_stations as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (way station)

noun:  A small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal.
noun:  (figuratively) A service area or temporary lodging used during a longer journey.

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