office building
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈɔfɪs ˈbɪldɪŋ/
:
edificio de oficinas
- All his celebrations were tied to business and were held in office buildings or rented ballrooms.
- commercial office buildings
- government office buildings
- public office buildings
This and most office buildings would require a massive retrofit.
- This and most office buildings would require a massive retrofit.
- Look, it's New York right there here in the historic Ed Sullivan Theatres office building.
- You know, these these office buildings, these retail centers, they're not going to be paying their taxes.
- Also, the loss of suffered by people in terms of destruction of their homes and their office buildings was vastly higher in Haiti.
- Working in Amman, what is the difference between a developer wants to build an office building versus one who wants to build an hotel?
- OK, well, let's list everything that's in an office building until we figure out, oh, like, Oh yeah, I didn't realize that office buildings have staplers in them.
- There was a case about four years ago in Russia where these cyber criminals had actually rented an entire office building.
Examples
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The radiation therapy facility is located in a medical office building and includes one cobalt device.
Academic text (1993) -
The Pentagon is the world's largest office building and that's what it is offices, right?
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Now owners of office buildings are finding that there is no access.
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Looks like a lot of little office buildings.
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Everything was closed up, but there was a big office building there.
Academic text (2015) -
Little by little, the parking lot in front of the office building was growing empty of cars.
Fiction book (1996) -
I tracked him down to an office building in Boston.
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Old factories are turned into apartments, and old port areas become office buildings and parks.
Academic text (1991) -
After that, the former courthouse was used as a municipal office building.
Academic text (2017) -
The new office building downtown offers modern amenities for all the employees.
Synonyms
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1.9
A place where people do paperwork and other work for a company
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2.8
A large building with many rooms used by different businesses
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a building that contains offices' is directly and literally composed from 'office' (a place for business work) + 'building' (a physical edifice), so a learner who knows both words can readily infer the MWE meaning. This head–modifier noun compound is a common, cross-linguistic composition pattern and therefore highly predictable for B1 learners.
Etymology
Office building is a simple, real name: it joins office (a place for 'work' or 'business') and building (a large structure). So, it means 'a building that contains offices where people do business'.