pumping station

1. 1.

   a house where pumps (e.g. to irrigate) are installed and operated

   Synonymspump house

   Broaderhouse

   Narrowerpump room

Questions about pumping station

What does pumping station mean?

pumping station means "a house where pumps (e.g. to irrigate) are installed and operated".

What is another word for pumping station?

Close synonyms include pump house. 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 pumping station a common word?

pumping 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.