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):
abuse
- assume
- call
- chase
- closet
- deliver
- email
- flow
- hold
- intend
- issue
- let
- meet
- mix
- monitor
- need
- pop
- proceed
- remove
- report
- run
- seat
- serve
- service
- shake
- source
- step
- stir
- storm
- take
- transfer
- upset
- vote
- work
- addition
- advantage
- affair
- air
- anywhere
- boy
- break
- building
- car
- chair
- cheese
- clothing
- complex
- day
- desk
- do