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interoffice


interoffice [in-ter-aw-fis, -of-is] ExamplesWord Origin adjective

  1. functioning or communicating between the offices of a company or organization; within a company: an interoffice memo.

Origin of interoffice First recorded in 1930–35; inter- + office Examples from the Web for inter-office Historical Examples of inter-office

  • She talked into the inter-office phone, did a lot of listening and yessing.

    Ye of Little Faith

    Roger Phillips Graham

  • As soon as the door had closed, Jack Carlson bounded back to his desk, touched a button on an inter-office communications box.

    Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942

    Various

  • The action of the two kinds of trunks, local or inter-office, is broadly the same.

    Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2

    Kempster Miller

  • The purpose of the trunk repeater is to enable the inter-office trunking to be done over two wires.

    Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2

    Kempster Miller

  • Word Origin and History for inter-office interoffice adj.

    by 1934, from inter- + office.

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