Home Office
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- proper noun
- /həʊm ˈɒfɪs/
- UK
:
Ministerio del Interior
- If you don't respond to the complaint, I shall have to take it up with the Home Office.
And and even you had diplomats office actually sent to the Home Office a letter.
- And and even you had diplomats office actually sent to the Home Office a letter.
- Now The thing is this, that Shawcross had the most terrible struggle to get the Home Office to publish this.
- So the Home Office reacted, overreacted and invested huge amounts of money in drugs policing.
- I went to the head of public protection, I went to the chief constable, head of serious crime, the Home Office, the IOPCA lawyer.
Examples
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The Home Office has issued a statement urging people to stay in their homes and await further instruction.
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This is my associate from the Home Office.
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That is why the Home Office is taking action to deal with that.
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I have a friend in the Home Office.
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I once worked for the Home Office.
Fiction book (1990) -
Significantly, the chair of this group was a Home Office minister.
Academic text (2005) -
Unlike other police forces, the Met is under direct control of the Home Office.
Blog text (8) -
He works at the Home Office doing various things.
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Asylum seekers are questioned by the Home Office about how bad the torture they experienced in their country really was.
Blog text (28) -
The Home Office announced new measures to improve immigration control.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Home + office
The parts 'home' (meaning domestic) and 'office' (an official place/department) give a clue that this is a government body dealing with domestic/internal affairs, so a learner who knows the words can infer a general sense. However, as a capitalized proper name for a specific UK department with a particular remit (immigration, security, law and order), the precise institutional meaning is language- and culture-specific and not fully predictable, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
The name Home Office comes from the idea of an office that looks after a country's home affairs. So today Home Office means the government department that handles 'home affairs' such as immigration, security and law and order.