noun
1 room/building where work is done
ADJECTIVE
▪ big , huge , large , spacious
▪ cramped , small , tiny
▪ plush
▪ high-rise
▪
London has relatively few high-rise ~ buildings compared to cities in the US.
▪ five-storey/five-story , ten-storey/ten-story , etc.
▪ glass-fronted ( esp. BrE ), glass-walled ( esp. AmE )
▪ busy
▪ open-plan
▪ corner
▪ back , front
▪ air-conditioned
▪ paperless
▪ permanent , temporary
▪
The company set up its first permanent ~s in Manhattan.
▪ private
▪
The prime minister arranged a meeting in his private ~.
▪ central , head , main , national
▪ corporate , executive
▪ area , branch , county , district , field ( esp. AmE ), local , overseas , regional , satellite
▪ congressional , federal
▪ council ( esp. BrE ), government , state
▪ administrative , editorial , press , sales , etc.
▪ newspaper
▪ medical ( AmE )
▪ dentist's , doctor's , nurse's , physician's , surgeon's , etc. (all AmE )
VERB + OFFICE
▪ manage , run
▪ come to , go to
▪ arrive at , get to
▪ leave
▪
What time do you usually leave the ~?
▪ come into , go into
▪
I sometimes go into the ~ on Saturdays when we're busy.
▪ call , contact , reach
▪
You can contact our sales ~ at this number.
▪ establish , open
▪
We plan to open a New York ~ in the near future.
▪ close
VERB + OFFICE
▪ overlook sth
▪
an ~ overlooking the Hudson River
OFFICE + NOUN
▪ job , work
▪ hours
▪
Call this number outside normal ~ hours.
▪ colleague , staff , worker
▪ life
▪ gossip , politics
▪ party
▪
We have an ~ party every Christmas.
▪ administrator , assistant , cleaner ( esp. BrE ), clerk , manager
▪ boy , girl , junior ( BrE ) ( all old-fashioned )
▪ chair , computer , desk , door , equipment , furniture , software , stationery ( esp. BrE ), supplies
▪ system , technology
▪ environment
▪
Working in a busy ~ environment can be stressful.
▪ accommodation ( BrE ), area , block ( BrE ), building , complex , development , park , premises ( BrE ), space , suite , tower
▪
The old warehouses have been redeveloped as ~ buildings.
▪ facilities , services
▪
The hotel provides ~ facilities such as computers and faxes.
▪ expenses
▪ administration , management
▪ skills
▪ procedures
▪ visit ( AmE )
▪
the bill from an ~ visit to the doctor
PREPOSITION
▪ at the ~
▪
I sometimes have to stay late at the ~.
▪ in the ~
▪
I'm sorry, Mr Anders is not in the ~ today.
2 official position
ADJECTIVE
▪ high , important
▪ minor
▪ lucrative
▪ elected , elective
▪ national , public
▪ ecclesiastical , judicial , ministerial ( esp. BrE ), political
VERB + OFFICE
▪ run for , stand for ( BrE )
▪
He ran for ~ in the last presidential election.
▪ seek
▪
She has never sought public ~.
▪ hold , remain in , retain , stay in
▪
The president holds ~ for a period of four years.
▪ be appointed to , be elected to
▪ be re-elected to , be returned to
▪
The government was returned to ~ by a large majority.
▪ win
▪ assume , be sworn into , come into , come to , enter , take , take up ( esp. BrE )
▪
Mr Martens was sworn into ~ as prime minister in March.
▪
The party took ~ in 1997.
▪ give up , leave , lose , relinquish , resign from , retire from , vacate
▪ be driven from , be forced from , be forced out of , be removed from , be suspended from ( esp. BrE ), be turned out of
OFFICE + NOUN
▪ holder
PREPOSITION
▪ in ~
▪
The government seemed likely to remain in ~ for the next five years.
▪ out of ~
▪
The party has broken all the promises it made when out of ~.
PHRASES
▪ a candidate for ~
▪ duties of the ~
▪ an ~ of state
▪
the three great ~s of state: the prime minister, the chancellor and the foreign secretary ( BrE )
▪ a term of ~
▪
to be re-elected for a second term of ~