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BRANCH OFFICE

Specialty Definition: BRANCH OFFICE

DomainDefinition

Finance

An office of a savings institution that is physically separated from the association's home office, but that offers the same kinds of deposit taking, loan and other services conducted at the home office. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: BRANCH OFFICE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Workshop

Noun: workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business; manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory; cabinet, studio; office, branch office bureau, atelier.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BRANCH OFFICE

English words defined with "BRANCH OFFICE": bank manager. (references)
Specialty definitions using "BRANCH OFFICE": ASSISTANT BRANCH MANAGER, FINANCIAL INSTITUTION, AUDITOR, TAXOPERATIONS MANAGERSUPERVISOR, CORRESPONDENCE SECTION. (references)

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Commercial Usage: BRANCH OFFICE

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Periodicals

  

High Tech

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: BRANCH OFFICE

Computer Images:
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Photo Album: BRANCH OFFICE

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Detroit branch launches fall program. Presents Dr. Robert C. Weaver, Sunday, October 29th at Ebenezer AME Church - open house in new NAACP branch office at 606 E. Vernor Highway. Credit: Library of Congress.

Front of Columbus branch office of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 1026 East Long Street, Columbus, Ohio] / American Photograph Co., Columbus, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: BRANCH OFFICE

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Business

The next step would be to open a branch office in Saudi Arabia. (references)

For firms conducting offshore services, a branch office, also allowing 100 percent ownership, is suggested. (references)

Suppliers with large sales volume should consider setting up a branch office to provide better customer service and technical support. (references)

Economic History

India

A branch office actually does business in India and is subject to tax in India. (references)

Peru

An alternative approach to distribution is to establish a local subsidiary or branch office. (references)

Uae

Firms conducting offshore services, a branch office, also allowing 100% ownership, is feasible. (references)

Human Rights

Croatia

In October the Office for Missing and Detained Persons inaugurated a long-awaited branch office in Vukovar to facilitate the search for missing persons in the Danubian region (Eastern Slavonia). (references)

Estonia

The chancellor-ombudsman handles complaints by private citizens against state institutions; in June the chancellor opened a branch office in the heavily ethnic Russian northeastern town of Narva as recommended by the OSCE. (references)

Turkey

The HRA's Ankara branch remained on trial at year's end for allegedly "helping an illegal organization." Police seized documents and computers from the branch office in December 2000. In October HRA administrators in Rize were acquitted of charges of "unauthorized gathering" following a December 2000 anti-prison demonstration. (references)

Political Economy

Austria

Vienna is the headquarters of important international organizations like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the Wassennaar Arrangement (WA), and a branch office of the European Patent Office (EPO). (references)

Trade

Switzerland

Repatriation of capital, loans, dividends, interest, royalties, service fees and branch office profits can be transacted without limitation through any bank. (references)

Egypt

Representatives of the Inspection and Control authorities shall be annexed to GOEIC's concerned branch office where a joint headquarters shall be equipped with the necessary laboratories. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: BRANCH OFFICE

Expression using "BRANCH OFFICE": branch office bureau. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: BRANCH OFFICE

Language Translations for "BRANCH OFFICE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

poboèka (branch, offshoot). (various references)

   

French

  

succursale (branch). (various references)

   

German

  

filiale (affiliate, affiliation, branch, subsidiary). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fiókiroda. (various references)

   

Italian

  

succursale (agency, branch, setting up). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

"社 , "庁 , "局 , 出張所 (agency, sub-branch), 出先機関 , 分署 (substation), 分局 . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ししゃ (casualty, deceased, emissary, envoy, messenger, preview, private showing, test firing), しきょく (an act done for one's own benefit), しゅっちょうじょ (agency, sub-branch), しちょう (an audition, attention, cities and towns, leading private, mayor, municipal office, paper mosquito net, trend of thought, trial listening), ぶ"きょく (polarization), ぶ"しょ (archives, document, letter, note, records, substation, writing), でさききか". (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

anchbray officeay

   

Portuguese

  

sucursal (affiliate, affiliation, branch, chain store, filiation), filial (affiliate, affiliation, branch, daughterly, filial, subsidiary). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

филиал (affiliated company, affiliated societies, branch, branch establishment, branch house, filial agency, filial branch, subsidiary). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

sucursal (agency, branch, office, subsidiary). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

filialkontor. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

şube (arm, branch, department, limb, offshoot, ramification, substation). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: BRANCH OFFICE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-c-e-f-f-h-i-n-o-r"

-4 letters: anechoic, boniface, bronchia, carbonic, chaffier, chancier, chicaner, cocinera, corniche, enchoric, encroach.

-5 letters: acerbic, acronic, aerobic, affiche, archine, bicorne, birchen, bonfire, boracic, breccia, brechan, brioche, bronchi, caffein, carbine, caroche, chaffer, chancre, chicane, chicano, chiffon, choicer, choreic, chorine, chronic, coacher, cocaine, cochair, coinfer, conchae, conchie, conifer, corbina, cornice, crocein, crocine, fancier, oceanic, officer.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Images: Photo Album
5. Quotations: Non-fiction
6. Expressions
7. Translations: Modern
8. Anagrams
9. Bibliography


  

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