Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The headquarters of a unit of a police force, where those under arrest are first charged.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. the headquarters of the police, or of a section of them; the place where the police assemble for orders, and to which they take arrested persons.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. 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
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Examples
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Finally, to appease the neighbors who assumed there was a crazed killer at large, Deputy Chief Edward P. Lennon spoke into a bouquet of microphones at the police station three days after the murder: As of six-thirty P.M. that night, Mrs. Nancy McKenny VanVleet of 1010 Round Hill Road, Greenwich, had been arrested for the murder in the first degree of her husband, Guy Henrie VanVleet.
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General John Abizaid, Commander, U.S. Central Command, after surviving an attack on a police station he was visiting in Fallujah, February 14, 2004
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The incident last Saturday night was that, in the town of Kadugli, the police station was attacked by an unknown group.
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The Wexton police station is like a hundred other small-town law enforcement agencies: a squat cement building with a flagpole planted out front like a giant tulip stalk; a dispatcher so infrequently bothered that she keeps a portable TV at her desk; a nursery school class mural spread along the wall, thanking the chief for keeping everyone safe.
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When she called the police station again on Friday and learned that Lieutenant Bushfield was there, she asked to speak to him.
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I could not believe I was at a police station bailing out my sixty-seven-year-old mother.
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Buck Barnes hurried into the police station with too much on his mind.
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Somewhere in the police station in Via Laietana there was a file on her.
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A U.N. spokesman in Khartoum, Hua Jiang, reports an attack on a police station in the town of Kadugli and shooting in the village of Umm Dorain.
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Kelly explained to the jury how he first he met with Aloysius in an interview room of the police station at Fifty-first Street and Wentworth Avenue, and noticed that Aloysius had three “abrasions” on his face but otherwise seemed fine.
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