workstation

or work sta·tion

[ wurk-stey-shuhn ]

noun

1. a work or office area assigned to one person, often one accommodating a computer terminal or other electronic equipment.
2. a computer terminal or personal computer connected to a mainframe or network.
3. a powerful personal computer, often with a high-resolution display, used for computer-aided design, electronic publishing, or other graphics-intensive processing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of workstation¹

First recorded in 1930–35

Example Sentences

In between calls to the rental company, Ali, a lawyer, set up her workstation in the Murphy bedroom that was sandwiched between my sleeping quarters and bathroom.

From Washington Post

According to a statement given to Wired, the hackers busted into the system by compromising software called TeamViewer, which allows remote operators to control connected workstations from afar.

From Popular-Science

Now, as the unionization vote approaches, she said managers have come by workstations to hand employees water bottles and candy.

From Washington Post

Every year, there’s at least one—usually more—elaborate multi-monitor workstation that looks like something you’d find in a NASA training facility or in the bedroom of that one guy at work who really loves Battlestar Galactica.

From Popular-Science

She and other team members then spent the rest of that day and late into the evening, and several days more, sitting at their workstations, painstakingly combing through AlphaFold 2’s training data to try to find the mistake.

From Fortune

Sometime in the early hours of the day KAL 007 was shot down, Beck arrived at his workstation at the embassy.

From The Daily Beast

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