| 单词 | front office |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfront office front office n. originally U.S. a main or head office; spec. police headquarters. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > police office or station police office1781 station1814 police station1820 factory1890 front office1900 cop-shop1941 law station1958 bear den1975 1900 ‘J. Flynt’ Notes Itinerant Policeman 73 The capture dwindles down to a request on the part of the chief or his officer that the man shall go to the ‘front office’. 1935 P. G. Wodehouse Blandings Castle xii. 302 The Front Office has just sent out a communication to all writers. 1966 Punch 1 June 818/1 This is the sort of thing that can happen when the ‘front office’ is dubious about a film's popular appeal. < as lemmas |
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