Oval Office
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- noun
- /ˈoʊvəl ˈɔfɪs/
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Despacho Oval
- Deference to the Oval Office is essential, but so is challenging the judgment of its occupant.
- the Oval Office of the president
- Oval Office occupant
- Oval Office speech
At a time like this, the Oval Office should be a command center.
- At a time like this, the Oval Office should be a command center.
- So this afternoon, Donald Trump called reporters into the Oval Office to set the record straight.
- Anyway, so Donald Trump says it's important to have someone in the Oval Office that evil dictators are afraid of.
- In the, in the White House next to the Oval Office was the Cabinet Room.
- You've got press briefing room, Oval Office, president's private study, President's private dining room.
- Well, once in the Oval Office, I asked him about his youth and Des Moines when he was a young sportscaster.
- And also I heard that the most requested photo of the National Archives was of Elvis and Nixon shaking hands in the Oval Office.
- I one day my uncle invited me to spend the morning with him in the White House, in the Oval Office.
- First meeting I got to go into the Oval Office was on.
- And here's what Lindsey Graham did after the Oval Office nightmare.
Examples
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She's in the Oval Office, having what must be a very comfortable conversation with the President.
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Well, once in the Oval Office, I asked him about his youth and Des Moines when he was a young sportscaster.
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At a time like this, the Oval Office should be a command center.
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Very proud to have that here in the Oval Office.
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We just had our first Oval Office fight.
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This is the Oval Office.
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I just went to the Oval Office and found this beautiful letter from President Obama.
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The U.S. Ping-Pong Team met with President Nixon today at an Oval Office ceremony...
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This is the first meeting, very first meeting, very first time president-elect Obama was in the Oval Office and they're meeting for the first time.
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The President addressed the nation from the Oval Office after the crisis meeting.
Synonyms
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The people who work for the US president and make government decisions
Surface Forms
Morphology
The parts 'oval' (egg-shaped) and 'office' (a place of work/official post) transparently yield the basic idea of an office that is oval-shaped, so a learner could infer a literal meaning. However, the fixed, culture-specific referent—namely the official office of the U.S. President in the White House—is conventional knowledge not derivable from the constituents alone, so full understanding requires extra world knowledge.
Etymology
Oval Office is named for the shape of the room: it is an oval, like an egg, and it is the president's office. So the name now means 'the president's official office'.