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STATION HOUSE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does station house mean?
• STATION HOUSE (noun)
The noun STATION HOUSE 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: STATION HOUSE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("station house" is a kind of...):
station (a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose)
Meronyms (parts of "station house"):
squad room (a room in a police station where members of the force assemble for roll call and duty assignments)
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