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station-house

station-house is the alternative form of station house.

Meaning of 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.
    • 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, 1971.2007 January 24, Jesse Mckinley, “8 Arrested in 1971 Killing of San Francisco Police Officer”, in New York Times
  3. A building serving as shelter at a railway station.
    • The station arrangements are modern, and a subway connects the platforms, but the station house is the standard of 60 years ago.1946 May and June, G. A. Sekon, “L.B.S.C.R. West Coast Section—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 149

Forms of station-house

pluralstation-houses

Questions about station-house

What is station-house the alternative form of?
Station-house is the alternative form of station house.

Words near station-house in the dictionary

  1. station to station
  2. Station Town
  3. station wagon
  4. station wagons
  5. Station-Church Site
  6. station-house
  7. station-houses
  8. station-to-station
  9. stational
  10. stationaries
  11. stationarily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: station-house (page history and authors); station house (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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