"lubritorium" meaning in English

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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1957, United States Congress House Select Committee on Small Business, Distribution Practices in The Petroleum Industry, page 34,\nThus, whether stations have or do not have inside lubritoriums, affords a ready means for a gemeral classification of gasoline outlets as to the adequacy of their facilities."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, United States Congress, Hearings, volume 18, page 367:",
          "text": "We estimate the size of the building and platform, not counting the outside, maneuvering and parking areas, in excess of 50,000 square feet, plus, as you have inquired, a “lubritorium” which is postal parlance for a post office garage.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Michael Karl Witzel, American Gas Station: History and Folklore of Gas Stations in America, page 85:",
          "text": "The Lubritorium was now a basic part of the American gasoline station, with the moneymaking services it generated a welcome boost to sagging fuel sales.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, John Ritchie, Australia as once we were, page 247:",
          "text": "[…]neon-lit motels began to dot the highways; the grocer′s shop became a supermarket, the garage a lubritorium; the ‘bottle-oh’ and the ‘ice-man’ sold their yards and saw them transformed into candy-striped Chicken-Inns or pre-owned car showrooms with more pennants than at Agincourt.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Martin J. McGuirk, The Model Railroader′s Guide to Locomotive Servicing Terminals, page 49:",
          "text": "The Norfolk & Western′s Lubritoriums were considered by many to be the ultimate development of the engine house.",
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        },
        {
          "text": "2007, Jenny Gregory, Keys, George Eric Maxwell, entry in Diane Langmore, Darryl Bennet (editors), Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 17 1981-1990 A-K, page 624,\nHis study was nicknamed ‘the lubritorium’; there he oiled the wheels and smoothed over difficult situations."
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        "A facility where vehicles can be oiled."
      ],
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          "oil",
          "oil"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(US, Australia) A facility where vehicles can be oiled."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "lubricate"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Australia",
        "US"
      ]
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  "word": "lubritorium"
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "lubricate"
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        {
          "text": "1957, United States Congress House Select Committee on Small Business, Distribution Practices in The Petroleum Industry, page 34,\nThus, whether stations have or do not have inside lubritoriums, affords a ready means for a gemeral classification of gasoline outlets as to the adequacy of their facilities."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1963, United States Congress, Hearings, volume 18, page 367:",
          "text": "We estimate the size of the building and platform, not counting the outside, maneuvering and parking areas, in excess of 50,000 square feet, plus, as you have inquired, a “lubritorium” which is postal parlance for a post office garage.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1992, Michael Karl Witzel, American Gas Station: History and Folklore of Gas Stations in America, page 85:",
          "text": "The Lubritorium was now a basic part of the American gasoline station, with the moneymaking services it generated a welcome boost to sagging fuel sales.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1975, John Ritchie, Australia as once we were, page 247:",
          "text": "[…]neon-lit motels began to dot the highways; the grocer′s shop became a supermarket, the garage a lubritorium; the ‘bottle-oh’ and the ‘ice-man’ sold their yards and saw them transformed into candy-striped Chicken-Inns or pre-owned car showrooms with more pennants than at Agincourt.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Martin J. McGuirk, The Model Railroader′s Guide to Locomotive Servicing Terminals, page 49:",
          "text": "The Norfolk & Western′s Lubritoriums were considered by many to be the ultimate development of the engine house.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "text": "2007, Jenny Gregory, Keys, George Eric Maxwell, entry in Diane Langmore, Darryl Bennet (editors), Australian Dictionary of Biography: Volume 17 1981-1990 A-K, page 624,\nHis study was nicknamed ‘the lubritorium’; there he oiled the wheels and smoothed over difficult situations."
        }
      ],
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        "A facility where vehicles can be oiled."
      ],
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        ]
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        "(US, Australia) A facility where vehicles can be oiled."
      ],
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