office

Naija

Alternative forms

• house 0.58 4277, seat 0.54 162, senate 0.53 1130, letter 0.52 602, gate 0.51 174, term 0.51 263, shop 0.51 264, chamber 0.51 86, approval 0.49 92

Etymology

Borrowed from English office

Pronunciation

• ˈɔfəs

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 22
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: 423
• Frequency in raw corpus: 1480
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 260

Noun

• Na building where people dey from work.

1. • E don happen for office.  — (KAD_06_Cooking_DG__218, It has happened in your office.)
   • I dey like make my office near where I dey stay.  — (NSC_Legbeti_2021. I like it when my office is close to my home.)
   • Wetin help me be sey creche dey my office.  — (ABJ_GWA_14_Mary-Lifestory_MG__96, My saving grace is the fact that there's a daycare in my office.)
   • Haha na real office key.  — (LAG_30_Rambling-Conversation_DG__52, Haha, it is a real office's key.)
   • Dat one na our head office sha.  — (ENU_10_Genus-Investment_DG__3, That one is our head office though.)

Derived forms

• officer, head office
• workplace

Antonyms

• house

Translations

• English: office building