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workstation

US/ˈwɝkˌsteɪʃən/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,781 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: workstations

A workstation is one person's desk with all the equipment on it. A hot-desk workstation, set up the workstation, an ergonomic workstation.

In offices the word covers the desk, chair and screen as one unit, and employers in many countries must assess each one for the person using it. In computing a workstation is a powerful machine built for one demanding user.

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Definitions of workstation

  1. 1nounworkstationOne person's desk with all the equipment on it.B2+

    “Each employee has their own workstation with a computer, a phone and an adjustable chair.”

workstation is a desk.

Where it comes from

Work plus station, from the mid twentieth century.

From work + station.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Office & Admin

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workstation in the wild

  • The increasing capabilities of mainstream PCs since the late 1990s have reduced the distinction between PCs and workstations.

    Workstation

  • A music workstation is an electronic musical instrument providing the facilities of: a sound module, a music sequencer and (usually) a musical keyboard.

    Music workstation

  • FL Studio can be used either as an Audio Unit (AU) or a Virtual Studio Technology (VST) instrument in other audio workstation programs, and as a ReWire client.

    FL Studio

  • Windows NT 4.0 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft, targeting the data server and personal workstation markets.

    Windows NT 4.0

  • Windows NT 3.51 is the third major release of the Windows NT operating system, developed by Microsoft for the data server and personal workstation markets.

    Windows NT 3.51

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.