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• home office
  home office

  noun

  the main office of a company.
• Home Office
  Home Office

  noun

  government the national department responsible for the maintenance of law and order, immigration control, and all other domestic affairs not specifically assigned to another department

home office

American  

noun

home offices plural

1. the main office of a company.

2. (initial capital letters) the governmental department in Great Britain dealing with domestic matters, as elections, naturalization, and the control of police.

3. a work or office space set up in a person's home and used exclusively for business on a regular basis.

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Home Office British  

noun

1. government the national department responsible for the maintenance of law and order, immigration control, and all other domestic affairs not specifically assigned to another department

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Noun Inflected Forms

• home offices
  plural

Example Sentences

Home-Office Outsourcers This approach is similar to third-party outsourcing except that nothing is really outsourced.

From New York Times • Jul. 18, 2014

The enemies of public tranquillity reckoned fearfully without their host, in forgetting who presided at the Home-Office, and who at the Horse Guards.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 by Various

For this reason he will anyhow prefer to use me at the Home-Office.

From Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire by Headlam, James Wycliffe

Now, Mr. Hawes has, for many months past, furnished false reports to the justices and to the Home-Office.

From It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Reade, Charles