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coaling station

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coaling station (plural coaling stations)

  1. fuelling station
    • 2013 August 14, Simon Jenkins, The Guardian‎[1]:
      Britain's security does not need these places. It does not depend on coaling stations in the Atlantic. France survives without any longer owning Senegal and Pondicherry, and Portugal without São Tomé and Goa.
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