rest stop Meaning of "rest stop"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily

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  1. But it was only after she had turned 18 that, according to colleagues, she disappeared from her job at a highway rest stop and never returned.
  2. A bear injured nine people at highway rest stop in central Japan before being shot dead in a souvenir shop, a firefighter said Sunday.
  3. Her two-year-old great-great-grandson plays on it, and Huang herself uses it as a rest stop on her slow journeys from the open-pit fire in the back of her house to the front porch.
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