generating station
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgenerateandstation
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generate
verb[T]
uk/ˈdʒen.ə.reɪt/us/ˈdʒen.ə.reɪt/
to cause something ...
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station
noun[C]
uk/ˈsteɪ.ʃən/us/ˈsteɪ.ʃən/
a building and the surrounding area where buses or trains stop for people to get on ...
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(Definition ofgenerateandstationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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If a man has got in his own works ageneratingstationfor his own supply, that is not taken over unless he wishes.
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The cost of ageneratingstationwould be negligible compared with the social cost of doing nothing.
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By the end of the nineteenth century, technical progress had enlarged the area ageneratingstationcould serve.
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It is true that it is difficult to find a site for ageneratingstation.
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This brought into the field a big electric power company which already had itsgeneratingstationproducing electricity by steam further down the valley.
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Thegeneratingstationstaffs at the dockyards work, as a rule, seven shifts of eight hours each per week.
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The grid system came through the strain of war with flying colours, entirely because we were able to switch from onegeneratingstationto another.
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There is no dispute that a newgeneratingstationwill use less fuel than would the older capacity which would otherwise have been used.
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Failing that, they can claim the cost of and the expenses incidental to the construction of thegeneratingstation, etc.
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I cannot give an undertaking, but it is certainly my understanding that permanency can only be required in connection with ageneratingstation.
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I understand the definition here is: ageneratingstationfor which a nuclear site licence is necessary.
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It takes four or five years to plan, finance, build and bring on stream a significant new electricitygeneratingstation.
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Consequently, matters such as the need for ageneratingstation, its capacity, choice of fuel and type of plant remain commercial matters for applicants.
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An electricitygeneratingstationwas not altogether a thing of beauty.
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Thegeneratingstationmay send out a dozen transmission lines in the form of a fan.
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That indirect compulsion may place the owner of ageneratingstationin practically an impossible position.
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The board recently announced the withdrawal of its application for thegeneratingstation.
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I still take the view that the coal-firedgeneratingstationin its proper place will outstrip any nuclear power station.
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One cannot build ageneratingstationon the banks of that river without some farmland going.
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It seems to me that, having once got control of thegeneratingstation, then the control is in the hands of these boards.
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