HOME OFFICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Home Office mean? 

• HOME OFFICE (noun)
  The noun HOME OFFICE has 2 senses:

1. the government department in charge of domestic affairs

2. (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise

  Familiarity information: HOME OFFICE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOME OFFICE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The government department in charge of domestic affairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Home Office" is a kind of...):

ministry (a government department under the direction of a minister of state)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

central office; headquarters; home base; home office; main office

Context example:

many companies have their headquarters in New York

Hypernyms ("home office" is a kind of...):

business office; office (place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "home office"):

mukataa (an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center)

 Context examples 

You may want to set up a home office, for it appears you will be bringing work home, and you will want to be comfortable doing it there.

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