battle station

American  

noun

Military, Navy.

1. the place or position that one is assigned to for battle or in an emergency.

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Example Sentences

He had been looking forward to going ashore that evening but soon found himself running to his battle station, passing munitions from the magazine room to the anti-aircraft guns on the deck.

From Los Angeles Times

He toiled in isolation in a second-floor walk-up loft space in Tribeca, N.Y., called the Battle Station, which was painstakingly re-created after his death in collaboration with his late wife, Carmela Zagari, as part of Art in the Streets, the major survey of street art Deitch curated during his tenure at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art.

From Los Angeles Times

A sign hung on the door of the Battle Station read, “He Who Dies With the Most Toys Wins.”

From Los Angeles Times

Kids sent to an orbital battle station to train for the next alien invasion are pitted against one another in teams: “Lord of the Flies” meets Hogwarts with laser tag substituting for magic.

From Washington Post

“When they said, ‘Man your battle stations,’ my battle station was the throttle,” he said.

From New York Times