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home office

home office noun: the headquarters of an organization.

Noun

home office (plural home offices)

  1. The headquarters of an organization.
    • I received a directive from home office.
    • In this type of company, the development of capabilities and the decisions to diffuse them globally are essentially made in the company's home office.2011, Kenneth A. Kim, Global Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach, page 11
  2. A room, in a person's home, equipped as an office so that the person may work from home.
    Synonyms:
    hoffice, study

Proper noun capitalized: Home Office

the Home Office

  1. (UK) The British government department, headed by the Home Secretary, responsible for security and law enforcement in England and Wales.

home office meaning in Tamil and Indonesian

home office in Tamil

இல்ல அலுவலகம், வீட்டு அலுவலகம்

home office in Indonesian

room in a private home equipped for long-distance work
rumah kantor

Synonyms of home office

Forms of home office

pluralhome offices

Questions about home office

What does home office mean?
Home office means the headquarters of an organization.
What is home office in Tamil?
Home office in Tamil is இல்ல அலுவலகம், வீட்டு அலுவலகம். See Home office meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is home office?
Home office can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of home office?
The plural of home office is home offices.

Words near home office in the dictionary

  1. home nation
  2. home nations
  3. home note
  4. home notes
  5. home of phobia
  6. home office
  7. home offices
  8. home open
  9. home opens
  10. home ownership
  11. home page

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Adapted from Wiktionary: home office (page history and authors); Home Office (page history and authors); home office (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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