Anchor-hold
(n.) The hold or grip of an anchor, or that to which it holds. |
Anchor-hold
(n.) Hence: Firm hold: security. |
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. |
Hold
(n.) The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed. |
Hold
(v. t.) To cause to remain in a given situation, position, or relation, within certain limits, or the like |
Hold
(v. t.) To retain in one's keeping |
Hold
(v. t.) To have |
Hold
(v. t.) To impose restraint upon |
Hold
(v. t.) To maintain in being or action |
Hold
(v. t.) To prosecute, have, take, or join in, as something which is the result of united action |
Hold
(v. t.) To receive and retain |
Hold
(v. t.) To accept, as an opinion |
Hold
(v. t.) To consider |
Hold
(v. t.) To bear, carry, or manage |
Hold
(n. i.) In general, to keep one's self in a given position or condition |
Hold
(n. i.) Not to more |
Hold
(n. i.) Not to give way |
Hold
(n. i.) Not to fail or be found wanting |
Hold
(n. i.) Not to fall away, desert, or prove recreant |
Hold
(n. i.) To restrain one's self |
Hold
(n. i.) To derive right or title |
Hold
(n.) The act of holding, as in or with the hands or arms |
Hold
(n.) The authority or ground to take or keep |
Hold
(n.) Binding power and influence. |
Hold
(n.) Something that may be grasped |
Hold
(n.) A place of confinement |
Hold
(n.) A place of security |
Hold
(n.) A character [thus /] placed over or under a note or rest, and indicating that it is to be prolonged |
Ministerial
(a.) Of or pertaining to ministry or service |
Ministerial
(a.) Of or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal. |
Ministerial
(a.) Tending to advance or promote |
Ministry
(n.) The act of ministering |
Ministry
(n.) Agency |
Ministry
(n.) The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent |
Ministry
(n.) The body of ministers of state |
Ministry
(n.) Administration |
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. |
| ministry | the work of a minister of religion, he is studying for the ministry |
chokehold
choke hold | a restraining hold, someone loops the arm around the neck of another person in a tight grip, usually from behind, he grabbed the woman in a chokehold, demanded her cash and jewelry, and then fled |
| 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 |
MOT
MOT test
Ministry of Transportation test | a compulsory annual test of older motor vehicles for safety and exhaust fumes |
| hold-down | a limitation or constraint, taxpayers want a hold-down on government spending |
grasping
taking hold
seizing
prehension | the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles) |
clasp
clench
clutch
clutches
grasp
grip
hold | the act of grasping, he released his clasp on my arm, he has a strong grip for an old man, she kept a firm hold on the railing |
| wrestling hold | a hold used in the sport of wrestling |
scissors
scissors hold
scissor hold
scissor grip
scissors grip | a wrestling hold in which you wrap your legs around the opponents body or head and put your feet together and squeeze |
| 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 |
cargo area
cargo deck
cargo hold
hold storage area | the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo |
checkroom
left-luggage office | a room where baggage or parcels are checked |
| government office | an office where government employees work |
handle
grip handgrip
hold | the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it, he grabbed the hammer by the handle, it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip |
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 |
| hold keep | a cell in a jail or prison |
| hold | a stronghold |
| 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 |
| ministry | building where the business of a government department is transacted |
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 |
| hold | power by which something or someone is affected or dominated, he has a hold over them |
appreciation
grasp
hold | understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something, he has a good grasp of accounting practices |
| ministry | religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian) |
| ministry | a government department under the direction of a minister |
| 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 |