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petrol garage vs petrol station

Both 'petrol garage' and 'petrol station' are correct phrases, but 'petrol station' is the more commonly used term in English. 'Petrol garage' is less common and might not be as easily understood by everyone.

Last updated: March 23, 2024 • 997 views

petrol garage

This phrase is correct but less commonly used in English.

This phrase refers to a place where petrol (gasoline) is sold and vehicles can be refueled or serviced.

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I'll check the garage for petrol.
For petrol and motor oil from a garage out towards Shotover.
Or there's the exhaust in the garage, so long as we have sufficient petrol to run the engine, if the worst happens.
Benzene exposure occurs for example in oil refineries, in connection with petrol transport and distribution, that is at service stations and garages, and in the petrochemical industry.
It will cut the regional incomes of our petrol stations, of our garages.
Instruments for checking anti-pollution equipment, with which all diesel and petrol vehicles must be fitted, will be available to all garage owners, while the car industry wanted to limit access to authorised dealers.
The committee also voted to lower the threshold of petrol sales in order to bring many more garages into the scope of the proposed law.
float it halfway round the world to another country, put it in a refinery, which is the size of a small county, turn it into petrol, ship it to a garage, put it in a flame-proof tank

Alternatives:

gas station
petrol station
service station
fuel station
filling station

petrol station

This is the more commonly used term in English.

This phrase refers to a place where petrol (gasoline) is sold and vehicles can be refueled or serviced.

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It's from a petrol station just outside Overton.
It's the CCTV from a local petrol station.
We need to go back to the petrol station.
Go to the petrol station, Lennart.
Sorry, I'm ahead of a queue in the petrol station and my card's playing up.
I'm telling you because these strange trucks that were in the petrol station have now just torn past us.
No, I bought it at a petrol station.
As darkness fell, we pulled into a petrol station.
It wasn't a petrol station.
And food- everyone is panic buying so I had to go to the petrol station and all they had was crisps.
Apart from that dude I saw back at the petrol station.
So, anywhere with a fuel supply that isn't a petrol station.
There has even been an explosion - we have seen pictures of it - in a petrol station.
You go into a petrol station there and you have to pay for the fuel before you fill your tank.
'At the petrol station, I discovered a problem.'
At the time of the robbery he was doing the six-two shift at a petrol station.
So you pull into a petrol station, do you get people who make observations about your car if you're in the Ferrari?
You know we got into a spot of bothering a petrol station in Alabama?
Nº 790/2010, by María José Manresa Gilabert (Spanish), concerning the location of a petrol station in a shopping centre in Molina de Segura, Murcia
We all saw what happened at the petrol stations when the price of oil was going up; every day you went past a petrol station the price went up.

Alternatives:

gas station
service station
fuel station
filling station

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