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way station

 noun
     
Related topics: Trains, Railways
way station [countable] American English
1TTT old-fashioned a place to stop between the main stations of a railway
2 a place where you can stop before going on somewhere else
way station to
The refugee camps, however dreadful, were a way station to their dream.
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