home office
Speech parts
1. home office - Noun
2. Home office - Proper noun
Meaning
(usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise
the government department in charge of domestic affairs
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I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.
Not everybody knows that looking at people in 'a funny way' is the commonest cause of sudden murder. I happen to know that because I read a Home Office brochure once.
I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.
Just as the police review their operational tactics, so we in the Home Office will review the powers available to the police.
I get up, get coffee, and go into my home office. I check email and Twitter before I start work, but I have to try not to get too distracted.