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register office
noun
- a government office where civil marriages are performed and births, marriages, and deaths are recorded Often calledregistry office
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The total expense, including superintendents and the register-office in London, would amount to about 80,000 per annum.
The man, previously instructed, drove rapidly off to the register office.
The watchman thanked him and went to the Register Office, where he found he was going in the wrong direction and returned.
Then came the scruples, the flight, the white cottage by the Thames, the marriage at the local register office.
On the spot where its old prison used to stand within the palace precincts, the diocesan Register Office was erected in 1760.
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