Stationery Office

noun

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

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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