police barracks
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpoliceandbarracks
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police
noun[plural]
uk/pəˈliːs/us/pəˈliːs/
the official organization that is responsible for protecting people and property, making people obey the law, finding out about and solving crime, and catching people who have committed ...
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barracks
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˈbær.əks/us/ˈber.əks/
a building or group of buildings where ...
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(Definition ofpoliceandbarracksfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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He has apolicebarrackson his demesne—an interesting object no doubt, but not a very pleasant one.
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The men were then ordered to walk to thepolicebarracks, with their hands above their heads.
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I understand that the hutments are occupied at present aspolicebarracks.
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He was brought to thepolicebarracks, and there detained for some hours pending enquiry.
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The women then attacked the two men, followed them to thepolicebarracks, and found out all about them.
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We used to talk aboutpolicebarracks; now they are called police stations.
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The localpolicebarrackswas attacked on three separate occasions in 1957 and 1958.
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No sleeping accommodation is supplied in the strong room inpolicebarracksother than that afforded by an inclined wooden platform.
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He was subsequently kept in thepolicebarracksfor his own safety, and in the end had to leave the country and abandon his business.
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Power lines have been blown up, telephone poles have been sawn down andpolicebarrackshave been attacked again and again.
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Let us take the case of apolicebarracks, where there is a sergeant and a constable both occupying rooms in thepolicebarracks.
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There is no question about this, because they took the man to thepolicebarracks.
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Why, then, should there be extrapolicebarrackserected?
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No one grudges £5,000 to the protection of thepolicebarracks.
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There are no farms very remote frompolicebarracks.
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Are we to understand that a resident magistrate is entitled to become seised of a case by hearing it privately in his own house or in apolicebarracks?
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