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POLICE STATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
police headquarters; police station; station house
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("police station" is a kind of...):
station (a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose)
Meronyms (parts of "police station"):
squad room (a room in a police station where members of the force assemble for roll call and duty assignments)