station house

See also: stationhouse and station-house

English

Alternative forms

• stationhouse, station-house

Noun

station house (plural station houses)

1. (US) A structure or other area set aside for storage of fire-extinguishing equipment.
2. (US) The headquarters of a police force or unit for a specific district; a police station.
   • 2007 January 24, Jesse Mckinley, “8 Arrested in 1971 Killing of San Francisco Police Officer”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The arrests, in morning raids in California, Florida and New York capped an investigation by San Francisco police into the murder of Sgt. John V. Young, who was killed by a shotgun at a desk in the Ingleside stationhouse on Aug. 29, 1971.

3. A building serving as shelter at a railway station.
   • 1946 May and June, G. A. Sekon, “L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 149:

     The station arrangements are modern, and a subway connects the platforms, but the station house is the standard of 60 years ago.

Synonyms

• (area police headquarters): police station, precinct

Translations

building at a post or station.

area headquarters for police.

• Bulgarian: полицейски участък (policejski učastǎk)
• German: Polizeirevier (de) n, Polizeiposten (de) m