office automation

American  

noun

1. a method or system of using automated or electronic equipment, as word processors and computers, in the operations of an office.

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Other Word Forms

• office-automation
  adjective

Example Sentences

Office automation is proliferating, in large part, because the costs of "computing power" are dropping dramatically.

From Time Magazine Archive

Office automation came to the brokerage business relatively recently, and only because the Street was strangling in its own paper work.

From Time Magazine Archive