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station house also sta·tion·house (st

n-hous

)

1. A police station.

2. A fire station.

station house

(Miscellaneous Technologies / Building) Chiefly US a house that is situated by or serves as a station, esp as a police or fire station

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station house - 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

police headquarters, police station

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

station - a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose; "he started looking for a gas station"; "the train pulled into the station"

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That night forty score of them crowded into the station house of the stockyards district--they filled the rooms, sleeping in each other's laps, toboggan fashion, and they piled on top of each other in the corridors, till the police shut the doors and left some to freeze outside.

The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context

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