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noun

Obsolete. an employment agency for the placement of domestic help.

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Origin of intelligence office

First recorded in 1685–95

“This paper is coming right out of the intelligence office,” he remembered thinking.
Mahmoud Badr Is the Young Face of the Anti-Morsi Movement|Mike Giglio|July 2, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Those structures gave us the best location to shell the governor and police and the intelligence office.
Inside the New Taliban Offensive|Sami Yousafzai, Ron Moreau|May 9, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Hutson, for years, kept in New York, an intelligence office.
The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States|Martin R. Delany
The most common method of engaging a servant is through an intelligence office.
The Expert Maid-Servant|Cristine Terhune Herrick

It is a sort of intelligence-office for books, replied the Collection.
Karl Krinken, His Christmas Stocking|Susan Warner
All the correspondents were summoned at noon to the Intelligence Office.
Ladysmith|H. W. Nevinson
Even the kindest of us sometimes say, "She looks like a cook" or, "I feel as if I were dressed for the intelligence office."
The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping|Elizabeth Hale Gilman