home office

See also: Homeoffice, and Home Office

English

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

home office (plural home offices)

1. The headquarters of an organization.
   • 2011, Kenneth A. Kim, Global Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach‎^[1], page 11:

     In this type of company, the development of capabilities and the decisions to diffuse them globally are essentially made in the company's home office.

2. A room, in a person's home, equipped as an office so that the person may work from home.

Synonyms

• hoffice
• study

Translations

room in a private home equipped for long-distance work

• Danish: hjemmekontor n
• German: Homeoffice (de) n, Heimbüro n
• Hungarian: (type of work) otthonról végzett (táv)munka, otthoni munkavégzés, (place) otthoni iroda/munkahely
• Indonesian: rumah kantor
• Swedish: hemmakontor (sv) n

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English home office.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo(w).mi ˈɔ.fi.si/ [ˈho(ʊ̯).mi ˈɔ.fi.si]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo(w).mi ˈɔ.fi.si/ [ˈho(ʊ̯).mi ˈɔ.fi.si]
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo(w).mi ˈɔ.fi.si/ [ˈχo(ʊ̯).mi ˈɔ.fi.si]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈʁo(w).me ˈɔ.fi.se/ [ˈho(ʊ̯).me ˈɔ.fi.se]

Noun

home office m (plural home offices)

1. remote work