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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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 • Apr. 25, 2019

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 • Jul. 4, 2016

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 • Jul. 22, 2012

We started when there were two heavy-hitting centralised buyers, Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the Property Services Agency.

From The Guardian • Oct. 11, 2010

Merchant traders are already in treaty with Madeira for cakes; and while Naples is being ransacked for ices, the Government Stationery Office at home will yield an almost inexhaustible supply of wafers.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, March 15, 1890 by Various

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