post office | a children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters |
position post berth office spot billet place situation | a job in an organization, he occupied a post in the treasury |
public office | a position concerning the people as a whole |
function office part role | the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group, the function of a teacher, the government must do its part, play its role |
lost cause | a defeated cause or a cause for which defeat is inevitable |
office | a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities, the offices of the mass |
Divine Office | canonical prayers recited daily by priests (e.g. the breviary of the Roman Catholic Church) |
Little Office | a Roman Catholic office honoring the Virgin Mary, similar to but shorter than the Divine Office |
Office of the Dead | an office read or sung before a burial mass in the Roman Catholic Church |
land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
box office ticket office ticket booth | the office where tickets of admission are sold |
checkroom left-luggage office | a room where baggage or parcels are checked |
government office | an office where government employees work |
headquarters central office main office home office home base | (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise, many companies have their headquarters in New York |
land office | a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted |
life office | life assurance office |
loan office | an office where loans are negotiated and repaid |
lost-and-found | repository in a public building where lost articles can be kept until their owners reclaim them |
office business office | place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed, he rented an office in the new building |
office building office block | a building containing offices where work is done |
office furniture | furniture intended for use in an office |
Oval Office | the office of the President of the United States in the White House |
pawnbroker's shop pawnshop loan office | a shop where loans are made with personal property as security |
Post-Office box PO Box POB call box letter box | a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for |
property prop | any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie, before every scene he ran down his checklist of props |
shipping office | the office of a shipping agent, an office where seamen are hired |
property | a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class, a study of the physical properties of atomic particles |
tactile property feel | a property perceived by touch |
visual property | an attribute of vision |
color property | an attribute of color |
olfactory property smell aroma odor odour scent | any property detected by the olfactory system |
sound property | an attribute of sound |
taste property | a property appreciated via the sense of taste |
bodily property | an attribute of the body |
physiological property | a property having to do with the functioning of the body |
physical property | any property used to characterize matter and energy and their interactions |
chemical property | a property used to characterize materials in reactions that change their identity |
temporal property | a property relating to time |
spatial property spatiality | any property relating to or occupying space |
property attribute dimension | a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished, selfonfidence is not an endearing property |
won-lost record | (sports) a record of win versus losses |
property settlement | (matrimonial law) the division of property owned or acquired by marriage partners during their marriage |
doomed lost | people who are destined to die soon, the agony of the doomed was in his voice |
Foreign Office | the government department in charge of foreign relations |
Home Office | the government department in charge of domestic affairs |
French Foreign Office Quai d'Orsay | the French department in charge of foreign affairs, referred to familiarly by its address in Paris |
personnel department personnel office personnel staff office | the department responsible for hiring and training and placing employees and for setting policies for personnel management |
federal department federal office department of the federal government | a department of the federal government of the United States |
Office of Management and Budget OMB | the executive agency that advises the President on the federal budget |
Office of Intelligence Support OIS | 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 |