单词 | home office |
释义 | home officen. 1. Chiefly with capital initials. a. The department of a government concerned with home affairs (cf. home affairs n. 1). In later use frequently influenced by sense 1b, with modifying word specifying a country other than the United Kingdom. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > with specific responsibility intelligence office1659 custom house1661 secret service1737 home department1782 home office1790 War Department1797 port authority1851 W.D.1855 welfare department1904 welfare1928 social services1968 1790 T. Jefferson Expences Dept. of State 17 June in Papers (1961) XVI. 512 The Home Office. One Clerk @ 800 dollrs... The Foreign Office One Clerk @ 800. dollrs. 1847 C. A. Goddes de Liancourt & J. A. Manning Pius IX viii. 271 Cardinal Gizzi issued a circular stating, that the Foreign and Home offices were united in one department. 1875 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 497 The Italian Home Office took a step for which they were much blamed. 1906 Rev. of Reviews Apr. 347/1 When M. Bourgeois became Prime Minister in 1896, M. Sarrien went back to his old post at the Home Office. 2005 D. S. Prerau Seize Daylight (2006) v. 133 Germany..abandoned Sommerzeit immediately after the war, as the German Home Office in Berlin had received a large number of petitions against it. b. spec. With the. In the United Kingdom: the government department responsible for home affairs, including law and order, national security, and immigration; the building occupied by this department. Cf. Foreign Office n. 2.The Home Office was created in 1782 and was originally called the Home Department (see home department n. at home n.1 and adj. Compounds 2); it is headed by the Home Secretary. ΘΚΠ society > law > law enforcement > [noun] > department of administration concerned with parquet1650 police1740 home office1795 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > a or the government > government department or agency > [noun] > with specific responsibility > English or British admiralty1459 ordnance1485 Navy Office1660 navy board1681 patent office1696 excise-office1698 Treasury Office1706 Plantation Office1708 stamp office1710 War Office1721 India Office1787 home office1795 Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues1803 the Stamps1820 Welsh Office1852 W.O.1860 Local Government Board1871 pall-mall1880 Scottish Office1883 Ministry of Munitions1915 War House1925 Min of Ag1946 Mintech1967 DOE1972 Manpower Services Commission1973 1795 Picture of Times 55 [Expenditure] in the year 1792, Peace. Foreign offices—2870 Home office—2400. 1796 Lloyd's Evening-post 29 Apr. 450/1 The ten Clerks in the Home Office average their advantages by franking at 50l. each. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iii. 23 A recommendation to the Home Office..to offer a reward for the solution of the mystery. 1875 Times 9 Aug. 9/6 On Friday the new Home Office at Whitehall was occupied for the first time. 1928 Lancet 24 Mar. 631/2 Mr. Kelly asked the Home Secretary whether the Home Office had received any reports as to the conditions of health of workpeople employed in artificial silk factories. 1968 Guardian 6 Aug. 4/1 It was some time before I was being surveilled..with the full courtesy of a Home Office warrant. 2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) xi. 245 The investment in serious alternatives to low-level crime, however, would be more effective than all the cockeyed schemes now pouring forth from the Home Office. 2. North American. The administrative centre of an organization; = head office n. Cf. home adj. 5. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > office > [noun] > principal head house1516 head office1676 home office1840 headquarters1922 1840 Documents accompanying Jrnl. Senate Michigan II. 407 The whole amount of notes engraved for the home office, is $855,939 00. The amount charged to the branch, to be deducted therefrom, is $184,900 00. 1859 J. S. Gibbons Banks of N.-Y. xix. 349 Its principal business was to receive remittances from the home office in Cincinnati. 1925 Pop. Mech. Sept. 371/2 Dr. Charles W. Crankshaw, infirmary directory at the home office of a great insurance company. 2006 J. Hassell Learning Windows Server 2003 (ed. 2) iii. 115 Configure DFS to replicate data from the servers in the branch office back up to a hub server in the home office. 3. A room or area in a private home which is equipped for use as an office. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > others speech-housec1050 watching-chamber1533 music room1608 service room1669 amphitheatre1694 lararium1706 well-room1731 lumber room1740 water room1774 bird room1776 grubbery1791 bookery1798 study1808 service room1833 selamlik1838 serving room1838 social space1851 mail room1856 rumpus room1930 birthing room1936 home office1960 romper room1961 dungeon1969 1960 N.Y. Times 25 Sept. 6 r/7 Viewing his home-office, his friends were enthusiastic and asked why they couldn't have something like that, too. 1974 Changing Times Jan. 26/1 A home office need not be required by your employer to qualify you for a deduction. 1981 Guardian 24 Nov. 8/1 These days a home office is an important, if not vital, part of the house. 1999 D. F. Wallace Brief Interviews with Hideous Men 65 The therapist's chilly home office also contained..a stunning molybdenum desk-and-personal-computer-hutch ensemble. 2007 Wired Jan. 114/1 A home office that faces south is a mixed blessing: you want the natural light, but the rays are harsh on your screen. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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