home office

1. 1.

   the government department in charge of domestic affairs

   Broaderministry
2. 2.

   (usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise

   “many companies have their headquarters in New York”

   Synonymsheadquarterscentral officemain officehome base

   Broaderoffice

   Narrowermukataa

   plural

Questions about home office

What does home office mean?

home office means "the government department in charge of domestic affairs". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for home office?

Close synonyms include headquarters, central office, main office, home base. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is home office a common word?

home office is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.