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[ noun ] a station that serves as headquarters for police in a particular district; serves as a place from which policemen are dispatched and to which arrested persons are brought

Examples

"in England they call a police station a police office"

Used in print

(Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)

He did not want_to bring the Andruses to the station_house too early - Rheinholdt had summoned a press_conference , and he did n't want them subjected to the reporters again .

Related terms

station squadroom squad_room

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