| box office |
the ticket sales office of a theater, concert hall, stadium, or the like. [3 definitions] |
| dead-letter office |
a postal department to which undeliverable or unreturnable letters and parcels are sent to be opened, delivered if an address can be found, or destroyed. |
| divine office |
(sometimes caps.) the readings and prayers for the various canonical hours in the Roman Catholic Church. |
| doctor's office |
a building, or place within a building, used by a single doctor or a group of doctors, where patients can come to talk with their doctor or receive treatment when they have an appointment. |
| foreign office |
in some nations, the government department officially concerned with foreign policy. |
| front office |
the administrative office of a company or organization, or its executive officers or management. |
| Holy Office |
an organization within the Roman Catholic Church that oversees matters of doctrine and morality. |
| home office |
the main office of a business, organization, or company that has several offices. [2 definitions] |
| land office |
a government office established to transact and record the sale and transfer of public lands. |
| land-office business |
(informal) extremely good or booming business. |
| nurse's office |
in a school, the office of the school's nurse, where students go for help if they are injured or do not feel well during school. |
| office boy |
a boy or young man employed to run errands and do other odd jobs for an office. |
| office building |
a building that contains only or mostly business offices. |
| office hours |
the hours that an office is regularly open for business. |
| Oval Office |
the oval-shaped office in the White House that is used by the President of the United States. [2 definitions] |
| patent office |
in the U.S. government, an agency of the Department of Commerce that administers the patent and trademark laws; Patent and Trademark Office. |
| post office |
a department or branch of a government responsible for handling mail. [2 definitions] |
| principal's office |
the office of the head of a school, where decisions concerning the school are made and where discipline is sometimes carried out or decided on. The principal's office is also a place where students can wait during school hours for someone to pick them up if they need to go home for some reason. |
| Tenure of Office Act |
a law forbidding the U.S. President to remove a federal officeholder from office without the approval of the Senate. The act was passed by the U.S. Congress in 1867, overriding the veto of President Andrew Johnson. |