government office
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈɡʌvərnmənt ˈɔfɪs/
:
oficina gubernamental
- I need to visit the government office to renew my driver's license.
- business of government office
- city government offices
- government office building
They write up a project, they send the project into some government office where it is looked at against other projects.
- They write up a project, they send the project into some government office where it is looked at against other projects.
- If anyone gets a dead cobra and submits to the government office, they will get a financial reward.
- Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices.
- When they meet sandpapers, you will see these kind of agents and others who are working in government offices and in political atmospheres, they are so smooth.
Examples
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You and I will go to the government office and I will sign the necessary papers for returning the house to them.
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Locally, protestors have started to gather at the evaluation sites, as well as outside local government offices.
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And when they ask you in some government office how many children you have?
Fiction book (1994) -
"to sign up in their local government offices and join the committee..."
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Where are the government offices?
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Even less seemed to be getting done in government offices than in the recent past.
Academic text (1992) -
I was working as a clerk in a government office.
Fiction book (1998) -
They write up a project, they send the project into some government office where it is looked at against other projects.
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You can get a job as a janitor, or maybe a messenger in some government office.
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The main body of this publication presents national-level data and some breakdowns by government office region.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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3.7
A government department that deals with a specific public matter like health or finance
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2.2
A building where the mayor and main city government offices are
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2.3
A building where government offices are
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'government' (state authorities) + 'office' (a room or place of work); a B1 learner who knows both words can readily infer a place where government employees work and carry out official business. This noun–noun compound follows a common, cross-linguistic compositional pattern and is therefore transparent.
Etymology
Government office comes from putting government (the people who run the country) together with office (a place where people do work). So it means a building where officials handle 'official business' like passports, permits, and records.