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family office

family office noun: a business whose function is to centralize the asset management of a large family fortune (wealth held by a family).

family office: a business whose function is to centralize the asset management of a large family fortune (wealth...
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Noun

family office (plural family offices)

  1. A business whose function is to centralize the asset management of a large family fortune (wealth held by a family).
    • As the company has been growing so noticeably in recent years, it has been taking calls from family offices looking for investment opportunities.
    • Hussein Sayed, a local anchor with CNBC, a TV network, beams from the stage as he welcomes participants to a conference on family offices (FOs) in Dubai. Among those present are billionaires and their offspring, advisers and money managers, and a smattering of investment-minded blue-bloods […] Now...2018 December 15, “Family offices become financial titans. The growing ranks of billionaires' in-house investment teams”, in The Economist

Examples of family office in a sentence

  • Hussein Sayed, a local anchor with CNBC, a TV network, beams from the stage as he welcomes participants to a conference on family offices (FOs) in Dubai.2018 December 15, “Family offices become financial titans. The growing ranks of billionaires' in-house investment teams”, in The Economist:
  • “We kept hearing about this mecca of family offices,” Weiss said.2025 November 24, Joe Lovinger, “Family Office Mecca Run by Harlan Crow Lures Citadel, Kyle Bass”, in Bloomberg News:

Forms of family office

pluralfamily offices

Questions about family office

What does family office mean?
Family office means a business whose function is to centralize the asset management of a large family fortune (wealth held by a family).
How do you use family office in a sentence?
Hussein Sayed, a local anchor with CNBC, a TV network, beams from the stage as he welcomes participants to a conference on family offices (FOs) in Dubai.
What part of speech is family office?
Family office is a noun.
What is the plural of family office?
The plural of family office is family offices.

Words near family office in the dictionary

  1. family name
  2. family names
  3. family newspaper
  4. family of orientation
  5. family of procreation
  6. family office
  7. family offices
  8. family pajamas
  9. family physician
  10. family physicians
  11. family planning

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