POLICE STATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does police station mean? 

• POLICE STATION (noun)
  The noun POLICE STATION has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: POLICE STATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLICE STATION (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

police headquarters; police station; station house

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)

 Context examples 

And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The ideal case would be to combine both methods, strategic interviewing and thermography, moving our system to, for example, police stations, airports or refugee camps.

(The most reliable scientific model to date for detecting when a person is lying, based on thermography, University of Granada)