police station

noun
police headquarters for a particular district, from which police officers are dispatched and to which persons under arrest are brought.
Also called station house.


Origin:
1840–50

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police station
 
n
the office or headquarters of the police force of a district

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Police station is always a great word to know.
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a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Example sentences
The police station is a few yards away, but the officers on patrol show no
  interest in the line of customers.
On the other hand, the pressures that can be brought to bear in a police
  station are much stronger than those in a lab.
The site includes a former police station, one of the oldest in the nation.
At the police station, they photographed his body for signs of scratches or
  bruises.
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