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canteen

[kan-teen] / kænˈtin /


NOUN
container for liquids, used in travels
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Her family said they spent more than £1,000 on food from the canteen and takeaway meals during their three-week stay at the hospital while Florence was treated.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

The final plan adopted in 2022 added details such as meeting facilities, a fitness center, canteen, Patriot Store and other “community-serving activities.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

In Volkswagen’s hometown of Wolfsburg, the company’s taste for self-sufficiency extends to making its own sausages for the staff canteen and owning the local soccer club.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Jan-Niklas Hustedt remembers going to techno parties in the abandoned canteen of a pump factory that had drastically downsized after reunification, in his hometown of Oschersleben.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

In the canteen, Queenie was asleep with her head on the table.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Since then, mobile phones, smartwatches and tablets have been exiled from classrooms, corridors and canteens in schools across the Netherlands.

From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026

At the height of the Cold War, Moscow operated an airport on Svalbard and three mining towns complete with state-of-the-art health facilities and 24-hour canteens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Imperial College London dropped beef from most of its canteens two years ago, replacing it with venison alongside chicken and pork.

From Barron's ● Dec. 21, 2025

Exposing people to positive social norms, using posters in canteens encouraging vegetable consumption, or in bars to discourage dangerous levels of drinking, have been shown to work.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 24, 2024

He could dig holes, and he had a real gift for bringing water for them both in cans and canteens from the tanks near the mess hall.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller


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