noun

• A stopping place.
  "Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare."
• A place where workers are stationed.
  "An Econet network is made up of a number of stations."
• A place where workers are stationed.
  "There was movement at the station, for the word had passed around, / that the colt from old Regret had got away,"
• A place where workers are stationed.
  "It was my fate to commence my career in the medical service forty years ago in the presanitary days, long before the introduction of modern methods of diagnosis, at two of the most unhealthy stations in the whole of India — Bellary and Secunderabad."

verb

• (usually passive) To put in place to perform a task.
  "The host stationed me at the front door to greet visitors."