1A building or set of rooms in which the business of a department of government administration is carried out.
enraged protesters stormed government offices
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Fronting on to Bridge Street, the office block is opposite the refurbished government office complex.
Some states allow shorter working hours in government offices.
But the ban applies to everyone, including workers in government offices.
Of course, by this time, the government offices they had to go to were closed for the day!
The work at the local government office is not what I wanted to do.
A call to any government office in India would have told him whose house he was really buying.
Change of address cards have been pouring into the government office by the hundreds of thousands.
Another friend narrated a similar experience of a friend of hers working in a government office in a small town.
Around 200 angry survivors demonstrated outside government offices complaining they had not been given food or shelter.
I learned that lesson while I was working on a pilot project on using technology to link government offices in Berlin and Bonn.
2A post or position within a country's government.
he cannot be the city attorney because he already holds a government office
mass nounLansbury had his first experience of government office as First Commissioner of Works
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He may receive the freedom of a city but not a government office.
Bacon began his career as an ambitious young lawyer, using every available means to get government office.
In 1992 he was appointed to the highest government office ever held by an anthropologist-secretary of agrarian reform.
In that he has been hugely successful and has exercised far more power than he ever did or could have done in government office.
Ovid held several minor government offices before giving up that line of work to be a poet at approximately twenty years old.
In 1929, Maginot returned to government office.
Another sore point was access to public office, for only Anglicans were allowed to hold government office.
In the meantime, he has been forced out of his post as Junior Agriculture Minister, and his chances of regaining government office have been dented.
Such attempts at accommodation allowed tensions to fester throughout society, from peasants anxious to regain common land rights up to competition for the highest government offices.
Cabinet is now considering the establishment of a new independent Remuneration Authority to cover the salaries of MPs and other top government office holders.