office : Idioms & Phrases

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1. An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship.
2. An office where passage tickets are sold. Eng.

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• noun total admission receipts for an entertainment
  
• noun the office where tickets of admission are sold
  box office; ticket booth.
  

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• noun place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
  office.
  
  • he rented an office in the new building

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• adverb by virtue of position
  ex officio.
  
  • the president sat on the committee ex officio

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• noun (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise
  central office; home office; headquarters; home base.
  
  • many companies have their headquarters in New York

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• a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.

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• . See in the Vocabulary.

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• a department of the general post office where dead letters are examined and disposed of.

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• an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

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• noun canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church)
  

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• noun an agency that finds people to fill particular jobs or finds jobs for unemployed people
  employment agency.
  

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• noun the branch of the United States government that is responsible for carrying out the laws
  executive branch.
  

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• an office where packages for an express are received or delivered.

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• noun a department of the federal government of the United States
  department of the federal government; federal department.
  

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• an office at which to effect insurance against fire.

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• noun the government department in charge of foreign relations
  

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• that department of the government of Great Britain which has charge British interests in foreign countries.

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• noun the French department in charge of foreign affairs; referred to familiarly by its address in Paris
  Quai d'Orsay.
  

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• noun an independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States
  GAO; Government Accounting Office.
  

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• noun an office where government employees work
  

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• noun an agency of the legislative branch that provides printing and binding services for Congress and the departments and establishments of the federal government
  Government Printing Office; GPO; United States Government Printing Office.
  

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• an office of the English court of chancery in which writs relating to the business of the public, and the returns to them, were anciently kept in a hanaper or hamper.

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• . Same as Inquisition, n., 3.
• the Inquisition.

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• noun the government department in charge of domestic affairs
  
• noun (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise
  central office; home office; headquarters; home base.
  
  • many companies have their headquarters in New York

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• . Same as def. 7 above. Chaucer.

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• an inquiry made, by authority or direction of proper officer, into matters affecting the rights and interests of the crown or of the state.

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• an office where information may be obtained, particularly respecting servants to be hired.

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• an insolent fellow in authority. Wolcott.

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• one who has been in office and is turned out. Shak.

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• noun a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted
  

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• a government office in which the entries upon, and sales of, public land are registered, and other business respecting the public lands is transacted. U.S.

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• noun very large and profitable volume of commercial activity
  

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• verb give up or retire from a position
  step down; quit; resign.
  
  • The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month
  • The chairman resigned over the financial scandal

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• noun a room where baggage or parcels are checked
  checkroom.
  

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• noun life assurance office
  

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• noun a Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary; similar to but shorter than the Divine Office
  

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• (R.C.Ch.), an office recited in honor of the Virgin Mary.

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• noun a shop where loans are made with personal property as security
  pawnshop; pawnbroker's shop.
  
• noun an office where loans are negotiated and repaid
  

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• . (a) An office at which loans are negotiated, or at which the accounts of loans are kept, and the interest paid to the lender . (b) A pawnbroker's shop.

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• noun a local branch where postal services are available"
  local post office.
  

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• noun (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise
  central office; home office; headquarters; home base.
  
  • many companies have their headquarters in New York

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• noun an intelligence agency in the United States Department of Defense that designs and builds and operates space reconnaissance systems to detect trouble spots worldwide and to monitor arms control agreements and environmental issues and to help plan military operations
  NRO.
  

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• an officer; one who has a specific office or duty to perform.

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• noun a building containing offices where work is done
  office block.
  

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• noun a young man who is employed to do odd jobs in a business office
  

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• noun a building containing offices where work is done
  office block.
  

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• (Law), an authenticated or certified copy of a record, from the proper office. See Certified copies, under Copy. Abbott.

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• noun furniture intended for use in an office
  

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• . See Officeholder in the Vocabulary

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• noun the investigative arm of the Federal Trade Commission
  OIG.
  

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• noun agency that oversees the intelligence relationships of the Treasury's offices and bureaus and provides a link between the Intelligence Community and officials responsible for international economic policy
  OIS.
  

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• noun the executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget
  OMB.
  

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• noun the military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the United States Navy
  ONI.
  

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• noun an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church
  

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• noun professional or clerical workers in an office
  office.
  
  • the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard

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• noun the person who holds an office
  

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• (Law), the finding of an inquest of office. See under Inquest.

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• noun the office of the President of the United States in the White House
  

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• an office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery.

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• noun the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones
  Patent and Trademark Office Database.
  

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• noun the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones
  Patent and Trademark Office Database.
  

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• a government bureau for the examination of inventions and the granting of patents.

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• a place where payment is made.

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• noun the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management
  personnel department; personnel office; personnel.
  

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• an ancient office in the Court of Exchequer, in which the clerk of the pipe made out leases of crown lands, accounts of cheriffs, etc. Eng.

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• noun an office that finds suitable employment for applicants
  placement center.
  

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• noun a local branch where postal services are available"
  local post office.
  
• noun an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
  PO; Post Office; United States Post Office.
  
• noun a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters
  

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• . (a) An office under governmental superintendence, where letters, papers, and other mailable matter, are received and distributed; a place appointed for attending to all business connected with the mail . (b) The governmental system for forwarding mail matter.

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• noun a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for
  letter box; POB; call box; PO Box.
  

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• noun the number of a letter box at the post office where mail is collected
  PO Box No; PO box number; box number.
  

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• the office in which wills proved in the Prerogative Court were registered.

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• a place where books, pamphlets, or newspapers, etc., are printed.

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• noun a position concerning the people as a whole
  

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• the practice of changing public officers at frequent intervals by discharges and substitutions.

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• noun the office of a shipping agent; an office where seamen are hired
  

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• noun the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management
  personnel department; personnel office; personnel.
  

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• an office for the issue of stamps and the reception of stamp duties.

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• verb assume an office, duty, or title
  
  • When will the new President take office?

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• noun the term during which some position is held
  incumbency; tenure.
  

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• noun the office where tickets of admission are sold
  box office; ticket booth.
  

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• to stand as a candidate for an office.

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• to discharge a public duty.

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• an office or department where transfers of stocks, etc., are made.

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• noun an agency of the United Nations that promotes drug control and crime prevention
  DCCP.
  

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• noun an independent nonpartisan federal agency that acts as the investigative arm of Congress making the executive branch accountable to Congress and the government accountable to citizens of the United States
  GAO; Government Accounting Office.
  

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• noun an agency of the legislative branch that provides printing and binding services for Congress and the departments and establishments of the federal government
  Government Printing Office; GPO; United States Government Printing Office.
  

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• noun an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
  PO; Post Office; United States Post Office.
  

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• noun an agency of the legislative branch that provides printing and binding services for Congress and the departments and establishments of the federal government
  Government Printing Office; GPO; United States Government Printing Office.
  

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• noun an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States
  PO; Post Office; United States Post Office.
  

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