Collocations for "office"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "office" in context.
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office
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- a [large, small, tiny] office
- at the [local, regional, national, state] office
- a [home, private, shared] office
- go to the [teacher's, director's, secretary's] office
- government: the secretary of the [home, foreign] office
- the president's [first, second] term in office
- have offices in 20 [countries, cities, states]
- contact our [Denver, London, Barcelona] office
- have to be in to the office [early, late]
- will be in my office [later, this afternoon, this evening, all morning]
- works in an office
- is [out of, away from] the office right now
- left my [keys, laptop, bag] at the office
- I need to [drop, pass, swing] by the office to
- the office opens at [10 A.M.]
- the whole office [helped, contributed, pitched in]
- she's [running, standing] for political office
- at the [doctor's, dentist's] office
- go to the post office
- at the box office
- the office of [research, investigation, enquiries]
- office [products, supplies, furniture]
- an office [job, block, building, manager, junior, worker]
- an out-of-office reply
- our office hours are from [9 to 5]
- a post-office [counter, clerk]
- a box-office [hit, smash, record]
'office' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
ID
- Monday
- SOB
- a stone's throw
- absence
- abuse
- accent
- accountant
- addition
- administration
- administrative
- advancement
- advantage
- affair
- afterwards
- agency
- air
- alley
- anytime
- anywhere
- apparel
- associate
- assume
- attorney
- baggage
- behavior
- betrayal
- blazer
- booking
- boy
- break
- briefly
- building
- bureau
- cab
- cabinet
- calendar
- call
- canteen
- car
- carefree
- caretaker
- chair
- chaos
- chase
- cheese
- citizen
- city
- cleaner
- cleaning