service area
Britishnoun
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a place on a motorway providing garage services, restaurants, toilet facilities, etc
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the area within which a satisfactory signal can be received from a given radio transmitter
Example Sentences
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Dominion’s Virginia service area is a hub for data centers, with electricity load forecast to grow over 5% annually.
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
That’s thrown uncertainty into officials’ goal of eventually bringing the approach to their whole service area, spanning 36 cities and unincorporated communities.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026
Utilities including Entergy—which operates in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas—and Dominion—with a service area spanning parts of Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina—said they had storm-response teams ready to mobilize should outages occur.
From Barron's • Jan. 23, 2026
When Asthana took over as CEO of PJM in 2020, power plants within its service area were shutting down more quickly than they could be replaced.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 13, 2026
An incident later in B-block had called my bluff: I’d discovered a fire in the service area that ran down the center of the block; welders upstairs had unwittingly ignited a length of PVC pipe.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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