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War Office

British  

noun

    1. the department of state responsible for the British Army, now part of the Ministry of Defence

    2. the premises of this department in Whitehall, London

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Westminster Development Services is best known for redeveloping the site of the former Old War Office building on Whitehall as a Raffles hotel complex.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2024

In fact, documents concerning an essential mission, dubbed Operation Postmaster and undertaken by the British War Office, were only recently declassified.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 19, 2024

And yet just across Whitehall, a billionaire property developer is close to completing an extravagant conversion of the Old War Office, an Edwardian-era monument to Britain’s imperial past.

From New York Times Mar. 27, 2022

Instead, Walsh recalls the famous figures who worked in the Old War Office, from Winston Churchill to T.E.

From Seattle Times Mar. 27, 2022

Looked as though there might be something in the rumour that the Admiralty or the War Office or the Air Force had got hold of it....

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie

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