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单词 registry office
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registry officen.

Brit. /ˈrɛdʒᵻstrɪ ˌɒfɪs/, U.S. /ˈrɛdʒəstri ˌɔfəs/, /ˈrɛdʒəstri ˌɑfəs/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: registry n., office n.
Etymology: < registry n. + office n. Compare earlier register office n.
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).
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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.
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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).
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