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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
police station
noun
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▪ Anyone finding them should hand them in at a police station or to any officer he said.
▪ Daley sat in the house, out of sight, but giving orders to the corner police station by phone.
▪ Inspector Brian Jaggs outside Braintree's new police station.
▪ Phone calls to the local police station began a few minutes later.
▪ That thought had occurred to me before I was hauled off to Southwold police station for the interrogation.
▪ They had last gone through the pointless business in the visitors' room of a police station.
▪ We were kept in the police station for a couple of days and then we got remanded to Low Newton.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Police station

Police \Po*lice"\, n. [F., fr. L. politia the condition of a state, government, administration, Gr. ?, fr. ? to be a citizen, to govern or administer a state, fr. ? citizen, fr. ? city; akin to Skr. pur, puri. Cf. Policy polity, Polity.]

  1. A judicial and executive system, for the government of a city, town, or district, for the preservation of rights, order, cleanliness, health, etc., and for the enforcement of the laws and prevention of crime; the administration of the laws and regulations of a city, incorporated town, or borough.

  2. That which concerns the order of the community; the internal regulation of a state.

  3. The organized body of civil officers in a city, town, or district, whose particular duties are the preservation of good order, the prevention and detection of crime, and the enforcement of the laws.

  4. (Mil.) Military police, the body of soldiers detailed to preserve civil order and attend to sanitary arrangements in a camp or garrison.

  5. The cleaning of a camp or garrison, or the state ? a camp as to cleanliness.

    Police commissioner, a civil officer, usually one of a board, commissioned to regulate and control the appointment, duties, and discipline of the police.

    Police constable, or Police officer, a policeman.

    Police court, a minor court to try persons brought before it by the police.

    Police inspector, an officer of police ranking next below a superintendent.

    Police jury, a body of officers who collectively exercise jurisdiction in certain cases of police, as levying taxes, etc.; -- so called in Louisiana.
    --Bouvier.

    Police justice, or Police magistrate, a judge of a police court.

    Police offenses (Law), minor offenses against the order of the community, of which a police court may have final jurisdiction.

    Police station, 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.

Wiktionary
police station

n. A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force.

WordNet
police station

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; "in England they call a police station a police office" [syn: police headquarters, station house, police office]

Wikipedia
Police Station

Police Station is an American TV series that aired in syndication in 1959. Stories were taken from actual files.

Usage examples of "police station".

How warm it was in the police station, the radiators hissing away like a bunch of happy snakes from a picture book, me falling asleep in the scratchy blood-stained police blanket that smelled of some old bum's piss and puke, a pair of huge socks from one of the police on my feet.

They tell you at the police station that you will be protected, yet all the time they know it's impossible.

The police station was only four blocks away, a simple building, ordinary in all respects except for the sign over the door.