OOO

American  

abbreviation

Business.

1. out of office: (used as a notification to colleagues or clients when an employee is on vacation, out sick, or away from the office for another reason, and cannot be reached.)

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Etymology

Origin of OOO

First recorded in 2000–05

Example Sentences

Instead, Extreme's Moscow employees recorded the orders as having been placed by a company called OOO DEMZ, according to emails and sales records, as well as three people familiar with the matter.

From Reuters • Oct. 12, 2022

Those include OOO Bilding Management, which is known as BLD Management, a company that builds and renovates villas in Russia as well as in Western Europe for oligarchs.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022

They are easy to slip on and off this OOO holiday season during that much-needed break.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2021

The new sanctions target a Russian ship, the Ostap Sheremeta, involved in laying pipe for the project that is nearly complete; the Russian owner of another vessel, JSC Nobility; and the construction firm Konstanta OOO.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2021

He had found that this was better OOO than facing the sighing blackness ahead.

From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda