An office or institution providing telegraphic services, a place from which one could send a telegram (a historical kind of electronic message).

A physician who is learning a specialty as part of a housemanship.

Any organization that wastes time on bureaucracy to the detriment of its actual business.

A building in which mail is collected together, then sorted prior to delivery.

plural of office-house

(UK, historical) A person employed to evaluate the cases of people applying for relief, and to allocate funds or authorize entry to the workhouse. / (UK, university slang, obsolete) One's father.

(UK, historical) A person employed around the coastlines of Britain in the 18th century to investigate smuggling.

simple past tense and past participle of die in office

To pass away while serving in a usually important position, such as a president or prime minister.

(dated) police station