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police station

noun [C]
 
 

Definition

A2 the local office of the police in a town or part of a city: He was taken to the police station for questioning.The police generally
(Definition of police station noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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