stationed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of station.

   The regiment stationed two scouts on the ridge overnight.

   Diplomats stationed abroad often serve three-year terms before rotating home.

   Note

   Most often met in the passive, because the verb behind it usually works that way: troops are stationed at a base, a guard is stationed by the door. One spelling serves both past tense and past participle, so "the regiment stationed scouts" and "the scouts were stationed" share a form. With soldiers and garrisons it carries the verb's military sense of posting someone to duty.

2. 2
   adjective

   Placed in a particular location in order to carry out a task or duty.

   The stationed nurses respond to emergencies across the whole ward.

   Crew members stationed on the lower deck rarely see daylight.

   Similarpositioned, assigned, based

   Note

   An all-or-nothing adjective: someone is stationed somewhere or is not, so it takes no "more" or "most" and no "very." Before a noun it names a fixed assignment (the stationed nurses). After a noun, usually with a place attached, it shades back into the verb's participle, as in "crew stationed on the lower deck."

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