flag stop

1. 1.

   a small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal

   Synonymswhistle stopway station

   Broaderrailway station

Questions about flag stop

What does flag stop mean?

flag stop means "a small railway station between the principal stations or a station where the train stops only on a signal".

What is another word for flag stop?

Close synonyms include whistle stop, way station. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flag stop a common word?

flag stop is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.