station keeper

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   the police sergeant on duty in a police station

   Synonymsdesk sergeantdeskman

   Broaderpolice sergeant

Questions about station keeper

What does station keeper mean?

station keeper means "the police sergeant on duty in a police station".

What is another word for station keeper?

Close synonyms include desk sergeant, deskman. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is station keeper a common word?

station keeper is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.