"home office" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-us-home office.ogg [US] Forms: home offices [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} home office (plural home offices)
  1. The headquarters of an organization.
    Sense id: en-home_office-en-noun-dCkIuZVn
  2. A room, in a person's home, equipped as an office so that the person may work from home. Categories (topical): Rooms Synonyms: hoffice, study Translations (room in a private home equipped for long-distance work): hjemmekontor [neuter] (Danish), Homeoffice [neuter] (German), Heimbüro [neuter] (German), otthonról végzettmunka (táv) (english: type of work) (Hungarian), otthoni munkavégzés (Hungarian), otthoni iroda/munkahely [place] (Hungarian), rumah kantor (Indonesian), hemmakontor [neuter] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-home_office-en-noun-E4wB2Hqt Disambiguation of Rooms: 5 95 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 10 90 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 3 97 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 5 95 Disambiguation of 'room in a private home equipped for long-distance work': 0 100

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