office block

noun

British.

1. a large office building.

office block

noun

1. a large building designed to provide office accommodation

Word History and Origins

Origin of office block¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

At one time an office block, the 1950s building in the Marshalltown area was abandoned and then taken over by several hundred people desperately needing a home.

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Workers in New York City have described scrambling out of office blocks, as panic engulfed part of downtown Manhattan when a gunman opened fire and killed four people on Monday.

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The report also said an empty office block at Picton Terrace, Carmarthen, was surplus to requirements and being marketed, and "uncertainty about long-term working patterns have been a factor in this office space remaining vacant".

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In an anonymous office block in Kyiv, we met some of the analysts whose job it is to pour over the footage, verify each hit and award points to the unit responsible.

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The leading architect's previous work has included the Gherkin office block and the Great Court of the British Museum in London, and the Reichstag dome in Berlin.

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