Booking office () An office where passengers, baggage, etc., are registered for conveyance, as by railway or steamship. |
Booking office () An office where passage tickets are sold. |
Crown office () The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. |
Hilary term () Formerly, one of the four terms of the courts of common law in England, beginning on the eleventh of January and ending on the thirty-first of the same month, in each year |
Office (n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others |
Office (n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose |
Office (n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself |
Office (n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform |
Office (n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted |
Office (n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office |
Office (n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. |
Office (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass |
Office (v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office |
Post office (n.) See under 4th Post. |
Sea term () A term used specifically by seamen |
Term (n.) That which limits the extent of anything |
Term (n.) The time for which anything lasts |
Term (n.) In universities, schools, etc., a definite continuous period during which instruction is regularly given to students |
Term (n.) A point, line, or superficies, that limits |
Term (n.) A fixed period of time |
Term (n.) The limitation of an estate |
Term (n.) A space of time granted to a debtor for discharging his obligation. |
Term (n.) The time in which a court is held or is open for the trial of causes. |
Term (n.) The subject or the predicate of a proposition |
Term (n.) A word or expression |
Term (n.) A quadrangular pillar, adorned on the top with the figure of a head, as of a man, woman, or satyr |
Term (n.) A member of a compound quantity |
Term (n.) The menses. |
Term (n.) Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties |
Term (n.) In Scotland, the time fixed for the payment of rents. |
Term (n.) A piece of carved work placed under each end of the taffrail. |
Term (n.) To apply a term to |
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 |
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 |
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 |
shipping office | the office of a shipping agent, an office where seamen are hired |
terminus terminal figure term | (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar, originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome |
short-term memory STM immediate memory | what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it |
long-term memory LTM | your general store of remembered information |
term | any distinct quantity contained in a polynomial, the general term of an algebraic equation of the n-th degree |
degree of a term | the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term |
term | a word or expression used for some particular thing, he learned many medical terms |
term paper | a composition intended to indicate a student's progress during a school term |
term | one of the substantive phrases in a logical proposition, the major term of a syllogism must occur twice |
major term | the term in a syllogism that is the predicate of the conclusion |
minor term | the term in a syllogism that is the subject of the conclusion |
middle term | the term in a syllogism that is common to both premises and excluded from the conclusion |
condition term | (usually plural) a statement of what is required as part of an agreement, the contract set out the conditions of the lease, the terms of the treaty were generous |
slang slang expression slang term | informal language consisting of words and expressions that are not considered appropriate for formal occasions, often vituperative or vulgar, their speech was full of slang expressions |
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 |
United States Post Office US Post Office Post Office PO | an independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States |
post office local post office | a local branch where postal services are available |
Government Accounting Office GAO United States Government Accounting Office | 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 |
Office of Naval Intelligence ONI | the military intelligence agency that provides for the intelligence and counterintelligence and investigative and security requirements of the United States Navy |
United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention DCCP | an agency of the United Nations that promotes drug control and crime prevention |
agency federal agency government agency bureau office authority | an administrative unit of government, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Census Bureau, Office of Management and Budget, Tennessee Valley Authority |
National Reconnaissance Office NRO | 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 |