What is "stationers"

Usage examples of "stationers".

Maybe many of the stationers knew… but that was too much to expect of stationers.

The tired stationers sulked and finally began to do as they were told… young, most of them, construction workers and a few techs, virtually without baggage and no few of them frightened at their first experience of weather.

The old spacer-stationer quarrel: leave the stationers to suffocate and keep her own deck spotless.

The few with him, the remainder of Russell’s own security police, a handful of elite stationers and a scattering of young people and old… they had held the hallway against the gangs.

It was among them, and they were as stationers had always been, neutral and empty-handed, treading carefully among those who meant murder… only now it was not stationers against warships, metal shell against metal shell.

He felt sick inside, stationer, out of generations of stationers, who had never asked for war.

Request that all docked merchanters seal locks and do not, repeat, negative, admit any stationers to your ships.

There were occasional acts of violence while they sat there against the doorway… fights among stationers and what might be Q residents.

His colonist ancestors, when they were stationers, had obeyed, and obeyed, and obeyed.

The stationers you met have seen atevi—not to mention Jenrette’s almost certainly told what he knows.

The doors shot back with a sigh and showed them a safety web in dim lighting and a clutter of stationers and small baggage every which way—stationers that caught sight of Banichi and Jago and stared, wide-eyed.

Beyond the lift, where the third of Ilisidi’s men maintained position with, presumably, Jenrette, and a handful of stationers, Sabin was still down there under cover—about, he thought, at the next T-intersection.

Terror rippled the lines as unprepared stationers saw atevi exit the car, but they were locked in that essential fact of station life, the line, the line that gave precedence, the line in which all things were done and solved, the line which meant entitlement—in this case, to ship-boarding.

They reached the lift, and stationers there, next in line for salvation, clearly didn’t want to wait—“We have children,” the head of the line objected.

The weightless episode was a test—convincing stationers that they really had to stow items.