单词 | registry office |
释义 | registry officen. 1. An office where registration is made, or at which a register of any kind is kept. Cf. register office n. 1.spec. a place where a register of positions in domestic employment is maintained (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept registery1483 chancery1523 registry1531 cartuary1539 Register House1540 cartulary?1541 arches1626 register office1641 archive1645 record office1647 tabulary1656 registry office1720 registrature1762 dufter1791 records department1825 PRO1892 morgue1914 society > occupation and work > working > labour supply > [noun] > employment exchange employment office1801 slave market1835 registry office1839 employment agency1851 Labour Exchange1852 employment bureau1865 employment exchange1867 labour bureau1872 pool office1884 employment service1915 buroo1934 labour1934 job agency1952 job centre1970 society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept > of positions of domestic employment registry office1839 1720 W. Kennett Monitions to Clergy of Peterborough 54 It would be for the better Insurance, if an authentic Copy were reposited in my Registry Office. 1728 J. Swift Let. to Carteret 10 May in Wks. (1765) VIII. ii. 71 I will take up the bones, and make of it a skeleton, and put it in my registry-office. 1827 C. Lewin Let. 22 June in Lewin Lett. (1909) I. ii. 223 Pray..cultivate her registry office at home in preference to any other concerning my character, for she knows it, I think, better than the others. 1839 J. Romilly Diary 16 Sept. in Cambridge Diary (1967) 178 Lucy went..to the Registry Office..to get a place for Frances Wilderspin. 1892 C. 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’. 1910 E. 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. 1964 M. Laski in S. Nowell-Smith Edwardian Eng. iv. 144 Registry offices abounded, but for really high-class servants the best method was..use of the advertisement columns of the Morning Post. 1995 Toronto Star 2 Sept. G9 Deals must close by 6 p.m. Without a time limit in the contract, closings were legal until 11:59 p.m. though the registry office was long shut. 2. British. = register office n. 2.Register office is the official term, but registry office dominates in informal and non-official use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > arrangement and storage of written records > [noun] > place where official records are kept > of births, marriages and deaths register office1836 registry office1836 1836 Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 34 138/2 He objected to the plan, as it would lead to the necessity of imposing a burthen on parishes for the maintenance of a registry-office. 1887 G. Gissing Thyrza II. iii. 49 ‘Is the bands [sic] put up?’ ‘They're going to be married at the Registry Office.’ ‘Well, I never!’ cried Annie West. ‘You wouldn't catch me doing without a proper wedding!’ 1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married in Doctor's Dilemma 236 Marriages gave place to contracts at a registry office. 1931 J. 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. 1976 Daily 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. 1993 C. MacDougall Lights Below 167 He said, We're engaged, so we might as well get married. So we got married. In a registry office. 2005 D. Nicholls Understudy 91 She had certainly transformed from the lippy, dungaree-wearing..pint-drinker that he'd married eight years ago at Camden Registry Office. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1720 |
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