Station House

Definition: Station House

Station House

Noun

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; "in England they call a police station a police office".

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Synonyms: Station House

Prison

Noun: prison, prison house; jail, gaol, cage, coop, den, cell; stronghold, fortress, keep, donjon, dungeon, Bastille, oubliette, bridewell, house of correction, hulks, tollbooth, panopticon, penitentiary, guardroom, lockup, hold; round house, watch house, station house, sponging house; station; house of detention, black hole, pen, fold, pound; inclosure; isolation (exclusion); penal settlement, penal colony; bilboes, stocks, limbo, quod; calaboose, chauki, choky, thana; workhouse.

Crosswords: Station House

Let's go back to the station house, and cornhole us a drunk. (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

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Eastern Siberian Railway employees station house, Ussuri Division. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Human Rights

Pakistan

Police corruption was most serious at the level of the Station House Officer (SHO), the official who runs each precinct. (references)

Pakistan

In May a Christian NGO in Sargodha reported that a Christian man was arrested and tortured by a police Station House Officer (SHO) who had a personal grievance against him. (references)

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Albanian

ndërtesë e rajonit të policisë. (various references)

Bulgarian 

полицейски участък (police station). (various references)

Czech

strážnice (guard house, guardhouse, guardroom, police station). (various references)

German

wache (guard, guard duty, guard room, guardhouse, guardsman, Nick, security guard, security man, sentinel, sentries, sentry, station, watch), revier (area, beat, coalmine, district, field, hunting ground, mining area, Nick, police station, precinct, shoot, sick bay, station, territory), polizeiwache (police station, police-station), polizeirevier (police district, police station, precinct). (various references)

Hungarian

zárka (guard house, slot), zárda (convent, monastery, nunnery, priory), rendőrőrszoba (guardroom, lockup, police headquarters, police station), fogda (cells, clink, guard house, jail, lockup, prison). (various references)

Pig Latin

ationstay ousehay

Romanian

post de poliţie (police station), închisoare (cage, cooler, coop, correction, gaol, hold, house of detention, imprisonment, jug, keep, pound, prison). (various references)

Russian 

полицейский участок (police station, police-station, precinct, precinct house, stationhouse, station-house, tana). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stanična zgrada, policijska stanica (police station, precinct). (various references)

Spanish

estación de ferrocarril (railway station), comisaría de policía (police station). (various references)

Swedish

polisstation (police station, police-station). (various references)

Turkish

polis merkezi (police station), karakol (headquarters, Nick, police office, police station, police-station, post, station, watchhouse), itfaiye merkezi, istasyon (station, stop, stopping place), gar (depot, railhead, station, terminal, terminus). (various references)

Ukrainian

вокзал (station, terminus), поліцейська дільниця (police station). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: enthusiast.

-3 letters: oasthouse, ostinatos, outshines, snootiest, snoutiest, sostenuti, sostenuto, southeast, thionates.

-4 letters: anthesis, antsiest, astonies, astonish, atheists, hastiest, hesitant, hiatuses, histones, hootiest, housesat, housesit, instates, isotones, nastiest, nutsiest, ostinato, outshine, outshone, satinets, shanties, sheitans, sinuates, situates, snoutish, soothest, sootiest, soutanes, staithes, stations, sthenias, stoniest, stoutens, stoutish, tautness, testoons, thionate, titaness, titanous, tootsies, unstates.

+5 letters: neuropathologists.