"out-of-office" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From out of office.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "E-mail",
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            "Internet",
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            "Computing",
            "Networking",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015 August 27, Emily Gould, “The Art of the Out-of-Office Reply”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "There are poetic out-of-offices and humorous (or supposedly humorous) out-of-offices. There are out-of-offices that boast or complain about the person’s likely whereabouts (Bali! Jury duty.).",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 August 7, Emma Beddington, “Email makes my fingers tingle and my stomach drop with dread. Can’t we go back to pigeons?”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "That doesn’t happen in even the most enlightened workplaces, but nothing makes me feel more patriotic than emailing a French company in summer, getting an out-of-office that sends me to someone else, that person also being en vacances and suggesting a third, whose out-of-office directs me back to the first person.",
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        "An email auto-reply informing people that the person they are trying to contact is not working and unavailable for an extended period of time."
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          "email",
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          "auto-reply"
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          "contact",
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          "unavailable",
          "unavailable"
        ],
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          "extended",
          "extended"
        ],
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          "period of time",
          "period of time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Internet) An email auto-reply informing people that the person they are trying to contact is not working and unavailable for an extended period of time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Internet"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "out-of-office"
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  "etymology_text": "From out of office.",
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        "en:Internet"
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          "ref": "2015 August 27, Emily Gould, “The Art of the Out-of-Office Reply”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "There are poetic out-of-offices and humorous (or supposedly humorous) out-of-offices. There are out-of-offices that boast or complain about the person’s likely whereabouts (Bali! Jury duty.).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2023 August 7, Emma Beddington, “Email makes my fingers tingle and my stomach drop with dread. Can’t we go back to pigeons?”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "That doesn’t happen in even the most enlightened workplaces, but nothing makes me feel more patriotic than emailing a French company in summer, getting an out-of-office that sends me to someone else, that person also being en vacances and suggesting a third, whose out-of-office directs me back to the first person.",
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      ],
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          "Internet",
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        ],
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          "email",
          "email"
        ],
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          "auto-reply",
          "auto-reply"
        ],
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          "contact",
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          "extended",
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          "period of time",
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        "(Internet) An email auto-reply informing people that the person they are trying to contact is not working and unavailable for an extended period of time."
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