Lexic.us

Definition of Police station

1. Noun. 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.

Definition of Police station

1. Noun. A building serving as the headquarters of a branch of the police force. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Police Station

Literary usage of Police station

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1896)
"Residence at police station. Duties of matrons. ... When only one police matron is attached to a police station, she shall reside there, ..."

2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"police station, post-office, and handsome new sardi or native inn. ... School, post-office, police station, dispensary, and station on the Oudh and ..."

3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... door of the lodging-room cannot be closed. It is the same story in other police station- houses. The figures differ, but the conditions are the same. ..."

4. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... door of the lodging-room cannot be closed. It is the same story in other police station- houses. The figures differ, but the conditions are the same. ..."

5. The Negro in Chicago: A Study of Race Relations and a Race Riot by Chicago Commission on Race Relations (1922)
"The Great Lakes boys gathered about the • police station and demanded their comrades. Commander MM Frucht, executive officer of ..."

6. Open Wounds: Human Rights Abuses in Kosovo by Julie Mertus, Vlatka Mihelić (1993)
"Murder of Arif Krasniqi in the Prizren police station On August 30, 1903, Arif Krasniqi, a forty-two-year-old father of eight from ..."

7. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The words "police station" or "station," as used In the statutory ... In the act relating to police matrons, the expression "police station" shall Include ..."

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