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OFFICE FURNITURE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does office furniture mean?
• OFFICE FURNITURE (noun)
The noun OFFICE FURNITURE has 1 sense:
1. furniture intended for use in an office
Familiarity information: OFFICE FURNITURE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Furniture intended for use in an office
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("office furniture" is a kind of...):
article of furniture; furniture; piece of furniture (furnishings that make a room or other area ready for occupancy)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "office furniture"):
file; file cabinet; filing cabinet (office furniture consisting of a container for keeping papers in order)
Context examples
After some breakage of the office furniture, the editor (an ex-college athlete), ably assisted by the business manager, an advertising agent, and the porter, succeeded in removing Martin from the office and in accelerating, by initial impulse, his descent of the first flight of stairs.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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