pay-station

1. 1.

   a coin-operated telephone

   Synonymspay-phone

   Broadertelephone

Questions about pay-station

What does pay-station mean?

pay-station means "a coin-operated telephone".

How many syllables are in pay-station?

pay-station has 4 syllables: pa-y--sta-tion. The stress falls on "sta".

What is another word for pay-station?

Close synonyms include pay-phone. 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 pay-station a common word?

pay-station is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.