work station

work station definition - business

work station

  1. A single-user computer connected to a local-area network.
  2. An area devoted to an employee's accomplishing an assigned task. For example, a sandwich shop has four work stations, with employees adding ingredients at each station according to the type of sandwich requested by a customer.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Business Terms Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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