passport office

collocation in English

meaningsofpassportandoffice

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passport
noun[C]
uk
/ˈpɑːs.pɔːt/us
/ˈpæs.pɔːrt/
an official document containing personal information and usually a photograph that allows a person to travel to foreign countries and to prove who ...
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office
noun
uk
/ˈɒf.ɪs/us
/ˈɑː.fɪs/
a room or part of a building in which people work, especially sitting at tables with computers, phones, etc., usually as a part of a business or ...
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(Definition ofpassportandofficefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpassport office

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Instances of passports, applications and other documents going astray within apassportofficeare not separately recorded, but they are conparatively rare.
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Every day, for 16 years, there have been queues outside thepassportoffice.
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The estimated capital cost of equipping the building as apassportofficeis £40,000, but the figures of actual cost are not yet available.
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When one telephones thepassportoffice, the announcement also says that it will take four weeks.
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The table shows the monthly number of hours overtime worked at each regionalpassportofficeand the estimated cost of such overtime in 1989.
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I am particularly worried at the way in which they have been treated by thepassportoffice.
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I agree that the long-term future includes a basic change in the way in which thepassportofficeis manned.
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That was not happening in thepassportoffice.
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Let us suppose that thepassportofficeis to be run as a trading fund.
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I tabled a written question about thepassportofficeand how it would improve its quality standards.
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Its adoption automatically reduces the income to thepassportoffice.
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The number of umbrellas purchased for eachpassportofficeduring the summer was 200, totalling 1,200 in all.
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Obviously, for those who need a passport in a hurry thepassportofficewill do all that it can to accommodate them.
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Reports today state that the chaos in thepassportofficemay have been caused partly by preparations to ensure 2000 compliance.
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The testimony from thepassportofficetoday was that none of that was normal.
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People now have to queue because they cannot get a passport by any other means—the normal, conventional means of writing to thepassportoffice.
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He later discovered that the birth certificate of his 10-year-old grandson had also not been returned by thepassportoffice.
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However, it did not know about the scheme, and when we phoned up thepassportofficeit said that the scheme had not started yet.
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The machinery is that the individual himself gets into touch with thepassportoffice.
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