interoffice

[in-ter-aw-fis, -of-is]

adjective

1. functioning or communicating between the offices of a company or organization; within a company.

   an interoffice memo.

Word History and Origins

Origin of interoffice¹

First recorded in 1930–35; inter- + office

Example Sentences

In 2005, after a city Streets and Sanitation Department employee towed his illegally parked personal car, Kriv sent a letter via the city's interoffice mail system threatening to ticket the cars of Streets and Sanitation workers in retaliation.

From Salon

Prosecutors in the trenches are hearing they’re contributing to mass incarceration and racial injustice — a message sometimes echoed by office leaders and internal reformers, as at least a few see it, judging by interviews and interoffice emails.

From Seattle Times

There’s a stack of red, green and yellow containers for a pneumatic tube system — like you might see at a bank drive-through — used for an interoffice message service before the advent of email.

From Washington Post

The power plays, the interoffice dramas, the personalities you can’t escape — the travelers are insulated from it all.

From New York Times

My workplace is still on lockdown and everything’s being done virtually, so instead of physically showing around baby photos, I passed around several by interoffice email.

From Slate