Definition of Central office

1. Noun. (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise. "Many companies have their headquarters in New York"

Exact synonyms: Headquarters, Home Base, Home Office, Main Office
Specialized synonyms: Mukataa
Generic synonyms: Business Office, Office
Language type: Plural, Plural Form

Lexicographical Neighbors of Central Office

central lobule of cerebellum
central location test
central locking
central mesenteric lymph nodes
central metal ion
central necrosis
central nervous system
central nervous system agents
central nervous system depressants
central nervous system infections
central nervous system neoplasms
central nervous system stimulants
central nervous systems
central neuritis
central obesity
central office (current term)
central ossifying fibroma
central osteitis
central palmar space
central paralysis
central pit
central placenta previa
central pneumonia
central pontine myelinolysis
central processing unit
central processing units
central processor
central reservation
central retinal artery occlusion
central retinal fovea

Literary usage of Central office

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence as Administered in England and Ireland by John Pitt Taylor (1887)
"R. IT provides, that " proper indexes or calendars to the files or bundles of all documents filed at the central office shall be kept, so that the same may ..."

2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1912)
"At the present time there are three 606-pair underground cables extending from the telephone central office to these buildings. The central office cables ..."

3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"taken under the auspices of the university, and it is not intended that it supersede, as regards this State, the work of the central office at Washington ..."

4. Annual Report by State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.) New York City Visiting Committee (1904)
"central office. (Brooklyn Division.) No. 126 Livingston Street, Brooklyn. Bureau of Dependent Adults (Brooklyn Division). Number of officers and employees, ..."

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