Office Building

Synonym: Office Building

Synonym: office block (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Office Building

English words defined with "office building": chancellery ♦ Dwelling house ♦ floor ♦ level ♦ storey, story ♦ White House. (references)

Specialty definitions using "office building": building-service supervisor, burglar-alarm installer ♦ catering-truck operator ♦ FACTS, federal association ♦ high rise ♦ installer ♦ LUNCH-TRUCK DRIVER, lunch-truck operator ♦ main distributing frame, main distribution frame, maintenance engineer, manager, building, MANAGER, HOUSING PROJECT, many-to-one service ♦ nonresidential mortgage loan ♦ PROTECTIVE-SIGNAL INSTALLER ♦ Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ service-car operator, SHEP, superintendent, building ♦ TROUBLE SHOOTER II ♦ wireless local area network. (references)

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Modern Usage: Office Building

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You better beat it -- I hear they're going to tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing. (Duck Soup; writing credit: Bert Kalmar ; Harry Ruby)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Office Building

Domain	Title
Books	Office Building Management (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Apartment & Office Building Association Of Metropolitan Washington Membership (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Office Building

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Photo Album: Office Building

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Shown is an office building housing a clinic obviously in the city. See artwork: GR-42.Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).		NIOSH, old post office building, Cincinnati, Ohio.Credit: CDC.
	Old Coast and Geodetic Survey Office Building.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Eastern States Office building in Springfield, Virginia.Credit: Joy Pasquariello.
	North Dakota Field Office building.Credit: Merv Coleman.		Caption: New Jersey & Pennsylvania Concentrating Works, Boarding House and Office Building; Ogdensburg, NJ; Unknown Date; {26.111/55} (jpg).
	Photographed during the Civil War by Hord & Harmon, Post Office Building, Dayton, Ohio. He was Pilot of USS Ouachita in 1864-65. His uniform includes shoulder straps bearing a six-spoke steering wheel insignia.Credit: NAVY.		View looking to the eastward from the front of the then-new Navy Department Building, with the Pan American Union building to the left and the Ellipse in the center, 1919. Ramps on the building at far left were used to facilitate removal of victims of the Spanish influenza. The structure was a temporary office building converted to a hospital. Note the presence of a few horse-drawn vehicles amid the many automobiles.Credit: NAVY.
	A 150 story office building.Credit: Library of Congress.		Architectural drawing for a store and office building for Hahn Shoes. Perspective rendering.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Office Building

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		The expansion of building areas for urban and rural housing, increasing construction of new hotel rooms and new public facilities, coupled with further hotel room renovation and office building renovation, will continue to generate a rising demand for flooring materials. (references)
Economic History	Moldova	Good, quality office space is available at some of the following locations in Chisinau: Kentford, Petrolbank, TIS Business Center, Jolly Allon Hotel, Alfa (former TV factory) and ASITO office building. (references)
	Ukraine	The company has been aggressively pursuing business opportunities in countries of the former Soviet Union since 1991 and has its own office building in Kyiv, located next to their packaging materials factory. (references)
Human Rights	Hong Kong	The police had been accused of using excessive force when they used pepper spray and hit demonstrators when removing them from the entrance to the main government office building. (references)
Political Economy	ALGERIA	BNP Paribas is set to start operations in 2002. Citibank is growing fast, has opened a branch in Hassi Messaoud in the heart of the oil and gas fields, and will be moving soon to a new office building of its own. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Office Building

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	The numbers have all been crunched, the figures tallied, and lo and behold, the grand total for the amount of vandalism damage caused by Clinonites leaving the White House, primarily in the old executive office building, is twenty grand.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: Office Building

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	When I looked down at the enormous United States Post Office building I could just see the excitement on the faces of the bureaucrats--knowing they would soon be managing our national health care system!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Office Building

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
office building	187
medical office building	12
woburn office building lease	3
stoneham office building lease	3
office building management	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Office Building

Language		Translations for "office building"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Asturian		edificiu d'oficines. (various references)

Bemba		ofeshi. (various references)

Chamorro		guma ofisina. (various references)

Faeroese		skrivstovubygningur. (various references)

French		bâtiment des bureaux (office block), bâtiment administratif (office block). (various references)

Frisian		kantoargebou. (various references)

German		Buerogebaeude (office block). (various references)

Hungarian		irodaház (office block), irodaépület (office block). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		局舎 (bureau). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょくしゃ (bureau, high-angle fire). (various references)

Macedonian		kancelariska zgrada. (various references)

Pig Latin		officeay uildingbay

Portuguese		mensageiro (call-boy, courier, emissary, forerunner, harbinger, Herald, messenger, pages, peon, relay racer, relay rider, runner). (various references)

Provencal		immòble de burèus. (various references)

Samoan		fale ofisa. (various references)

Spanish		edificio de oficinas. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Office Building

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-f-f-g-i-i-i-l-n-o-u"
	-4 letters: beclouding.
	-5 letters: befouling, difficile, fungicide, inducible, lignified.
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