| 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 |
| patent infringement | violation of the rights secured by a patent |
| 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 |
patent log
screw log
taffrail log | a cigar-shaped log with rotary fins that measure the ship's speed |
| patent medicine | medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription |
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 |
| patent right | the right granted by a patent, especially the exclusive right to an invention |
| patent ductus arteriosus | a ductus arteriosus that failed to close at birth, may require surgical correction |
| patent system | a legal system for protecting the rights of inventors |
| patent law | that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing patents |
| patent patent of invention | a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention |
| patent application | an application for sole rights to an invention |
patent
letters patent | an official document granting a right or privilege |
| 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 |
Patent and Trademark Office Database
Patent Office | the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones |
Office of Inspector General
OIG | the investigative arm of the Federal Trade Commission |
office
office staff | professional or clerical workers in an office, the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard |