business office
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1.9
- noun
:
oficina administrativa
- At the front is a waiting room and a cluster of business offices.
- business office staff
- helpfulness of business office
- business office managers
Examples
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Nearly every school district has an automated payroll system because the business office staff can be more productive and make fewer errors when using an automated system rather than writing checks by hand.
Academic text (2007) -
I'm so sorry I'm late, I got held up at the business office.
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Your business office in Paris.
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This is a business office.
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Now she has two: a business office and a home office.
Fiction book (2002) -
There are many things to think about when buying business office furniture.
Blog text (1) -
Do you want a separate area with more comfortable business office furniture?
Blog text (26) -
I chose to start at the bottom, meeting with the billing person at the business office.
Academic text (2003) -
Conversations with district librarians, vendors, our business office, and IT department will be necessary for a smooth transition.
Academic text (2014) -
Kathy makes $30 a day working in the business office of a local hospital.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A room or set of rooms where people do desk work for a company
7
3.7
A part of a company that does office and support work away from customers
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place where administrative or professional work is carried out for a business' is directly and transparently derivable from the constituent nouns 'business' (commercial company) and 'office' (room where work occurs). This simple noun+noun composition follows standard English patterns and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Business office joins business (work to run a company) and office (a room for official tasks). So it literally means the 'place' where a company's paperwork and office work are done.