bus station

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bus station (plural bus stations)

1. A major bus stop, one that serves as a transfer point between a large number of routes.
   • 2000, Lynda Barry, Cruddy, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 85:

     In the bus station the father handed me five dollars and pointed me to the lunch counter. "Get yourself something to eat." He went into the men's room... .

   • 2002, Ted Heller, Funnymen, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 66:

     We're in my car heading toward the bus station to get to New York.

   • 2003, Andy McNab, Liberation Day, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 273:

     The square was near the bus station in the new part of Antibes.

Contrast train station, which can refer to any place — major or not — where trains may (if so scheduled) stop to let passengers on and off.

• bus depot (usually, for one bus operator).

• how do I get to the bus station

• bus stand
• bus stop
• departure stand
• stand

• “bus station”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

• sub-station, substation