Stationery Office

British  

noun

1. (in the UK) the company that supplies the civil service with all its office supplies, machinery, printing and binding, etc

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Example Sentences

Another company that specializes in copying the crown jewels provided crowns, tiaras and jewelry, based on descriptions in a book issued by the royal Stationery Office.

From Washington Post

I remember being asked what I was reading 10 years ago by people who assumed I’d be reading some popular book recently published, but I was, for my book on disasters, “A Paradise Built in Hell,” reading a 1950 book about the London Blitz called “Problems of Social Policy” published by Her Majesty’s Stationery Office in 1950, which I was pretty sure no one really wanted to hear about.

From New York Times

Anyone wanting to buy a copy will have to pay £767 and contact The Stationery Office, the private firm which has printed the document.

From BBC

He sought easier occupations, but his apprenticeship to a cheesemonger resulted in failure, as did a job as an errand boy at Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.

From Salon

Disraeli praised him; Sir George Cornewall Lewis bestowed a Commissionership of Customs upon him in 1856; and in 1864 he was made Comptroller of the Stationery Office.

From Project Gutenberg