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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
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)
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