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单词 home office
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home officen.

Brit. /ˈhəʊm ˌɒfɪs/, U.S. /ˈˌhoʊm ˈɔfəs/, /ˈˌhoʊm ˈɑfəs/ (in sense 3)Brit. /ˌhəʊm ˈɒfɪs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: home adj., office n.
Etymology: < home adj. + office n.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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