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head office
[f. head n.1 71 + office n. 8.]
The principal, controlling office of a firm or organization, where the chief administration is carried out, policy decisions made, etc. Also attrib.
1869Bradshaw's Railway Man. XXI. (Advt.), London & County Banking Company... Head Office. 21, Lombard Street. Ibid. 390 Head office accounts, local. 1933A. G. Macdonell England, their England vi. 70, I was warned by telephone, my Lord, from our Head Office. 1941F. Thompson Over to Candleford xiv. 214 I'll speak to Head Office. 1952A. Briggs Hist. Birmingham II. 54 In 1881 an export representative was sent out to Australia and New Zealand with his first head office in Sydney, and later on new offices were opened at Melbourne, Adelaide, and Brisbane. 1972Woman 4 Mar. 10/2 If you ever feel you have been badly treated [by the bank], complain—first to the branch and, if that's no good, then wake up head office. 1972C. Watson Broomsticks over Flaxborough xi. 150 In this trade you get used to being buggered about a bit by head office. |