POLICE HEADQUARTERS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does police headquarters mean? 

• POLICE HEADQUARTERS (noun)
  The noun POLICE HEADQUARTERS 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 HEADQUARTERS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLICE HEADQUARTERS (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 headquarters" is a kind of...):

station (a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose)

Meronyms (parts of "police headquarters"):

squad room (a room in a police station where members of the force assemble for roll call and duty assignments)

 Context examples 

It was no very unusual thing for Mr. Lestrade, of Scotland Yard, to look in upon us of an evening, and his visits were welcome to Sherlock Holmes, for they enabled him to keep in touch with all that was going on at the police headquarters.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)