POLICE OFFICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does police office mean? 

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POLICE OFFICE (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 office; police station; station house

Context example:

in England they call a police station a police office

Hypernyms ("police office" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "police office"):

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