Wiktionary
alt. Place or institution for temporary accommodation of vagrants, refugees, disaster victims and others. n. Place or institution for temporary accommodation of vagrants, refugees, disaster victims and others.
Usage examples of "reception center".
Nine days after their arrival Charlie was sitting in the recreation room of the reception center, disconsolately reading a book he had already read on Earth.
Besides that cluster of buildings there was the bungalow where Gerd and Ruth van Riebeek lived and the big laboratory and infirmary where they conducted studies of Fuzzy biology and psychology, a Reception Center, a Fuzzy School for learning Lingua Terra, and other such structures as might be of use or interest to a Fuzzy.
Hugo Bache, the Fort Worth, Texas, veterinarian who arrived late this evening to examine the Martians at the Patrick Air Force Base reception center, has issued a preliminary report which has just been released by Colonel Eric T.
It was about a huge reception center outside the Pearly Gates of heaven - filled with computers and staffed by people who had been certified public accountants or investment counselors or business managers back on Earth.
We were two hundred yards away, but I could see him through the glass of the reception center.
Wahl had been told Dachau was a sort of reception center where the Jews were taken for classification before being relocated in the Eastern Territories.
In all the hours at the reception center the only time we had been off our feet was during the bloodletting.
I was beginning to think that sending my clothing from the reception center to the police station was not at all as funny as it had seemed at the time.
The most obvious source of information was the Tourist Reception Center.
As they pulled out of the reception center, a soldier rose and faced Clayton Charles's group.
The thalamus acts as a reception center for the somesthetic sensations —.
It was about a huge reception center outside the Pearly Gates of heaven&mdash.
When he got to the training camp at Huntsville, he found the Reception Center closed for the day and only the thought of the consequences to his employment record, if he should be picked up for vagrancy, drove him to a hotel.