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ˈregistry ˌoffice
1. = register office a., spec. † a place where a register of positions in domestic employment is kept (obs. exc. Hist.).
1728Swift Let. c 10 May in Works (1766) XVII. 169, I will take up the bones, and make of it a skeleton, and put it in my registry office. 1834J. S. Mill in Monthly Repos. VIII. 439 Prying into the records of the..registry office. 1836Act 6 & 7 Will. IV, c. 86 §4 All Expences of carrying on the Business of the General Registry Office. 1839J. Romilly Cambr. Diary 16 Sept. (1967) 178 Lucy went..to the Registry Office..to get a place for Frances Wilderspin. 1892C. M. Yonge Cross Roads xv. 157 She was in communication with the registry office there; but she would not take what the matron of the lodge called ‘rackety situations’. 1910E. M. Forster Howards End vii. 59 Would you come round with me to the registry office? There's a housemaid who won't say yes but doesn't say no. 1964M. Laski in S. Nowell-Smith Edwardian England iv. 144 Registry offices abounded, but for really high-class servants the best method was..use of the advertisement columns of the Morning Post.
2. = register office b.
1911G. B. Shaw Getting Married 236 Marriages gave place to contracts at a registry office. 1931J. S. Huxley What dare I Think? vi. 205 The marriage ceremonial among most primitive peoples..contains a religious motive, just as much as does a Christian wedding ceremony (and just as little as does a wedding in a registry office). 1974‘R. Tate’ Birds of Bloodied Feather iii. 67 Can't we just make a date? It only means slipping into a registry office. 1976Daily Times (Lagos) 27 Aug. 16/4 Workers at the registry office explained to Ajar that according to the law his wife could retain her maiden name. 1980J. Cartwright Horse of Darius ii. 27 They..were married in the registry office. |