17-letter words containing off
- arresting officer — the police officer making an arrest
- be off one's head — If you say that someone is off their head, you mean that they have taken so many drugs that they do not know what they are doing.
- billeting officer — an officer who is responsible for billeting
- carbon offsetting — a program in which a company, country, etc., reduces or offsets its carbon emissions through the funding of activities and projects that improve the environment: Carbon offsetting does not always have a quantifiable impact on the planet.
- coffee-table book — A coffee-table book is a large expensive book with a lot of pictures, which is designed to be looked at rather than to be read properly, and is usually placed where people can see it easily.
- counteroffensives — Plural form of counteroffensive.
- electronic office — integrated computer systems designed to handle office work
- employment office — any of a number of government offices established to collect and supply to the unemployed information about job vacancies and to employers information about availability of prospective workers
- executive officer — the second-in-command of any of certain military units
- fall off the roof — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- field post office — a place to which mail intended for military units in the field is sent to be sorted and forwarded
- freewill offering — a voluntary religious contribution made in addition to what may be expected or required.
- get (someone) off — to cause to experience euphoria, intoxication, an orgasm, etc.
- get off the grass — an exclamation of disbelief
- have sth to offer — If you have something to offer, you have a quality or ability that makes you important, attractive, or useful.
- hot off the press — newspaper: freshly printed
- jumping-off place — a place for use as a starting point: Paris was the jumping-off place for our tour of Europe.
- jumping-off point — A jumping-off point or a jumping-off place is a place, situation, or occasion which you use as the starting point for something.
- juvenile offender — a child or young person who has been found guilty of some offence, act of vandalism, or antisocial behaviour before a juvenile court
- knocking-off time — the time when you finish work
- mexican stand-off — A Mexican stand-off is a situation in which neither of the people or groups in a conflict or dispute can win and neither wants to give in first.
- off duty, on duty — If someone such as a policeman or a nurse is off duty, they are not working. If someone is on duty, they are working.
- off one's own bat — If someone does something off their own bat, they do it without anyone else suggesting it.
- off one's trolley — trolley car.
- off-site facility — An off-site facility is a facility which is not at the main industrial or commercial site.
- off-year election — (in the US) an election held in a year when a presidential election does not take place
- office automation — a method or system of using automated or electronic equipment, as word processors and computers, in the operations of an office.
- office by example — (language) (OBE) A sequel to QBE, described in publications by Moshe Zloof of IBM in the early 1980s but apparently never implemented.
- official receiver — an officer appointed by the Insolvency Service to receive the income and manage the estate of a bankrupt pending the appointment of a trustee in bankruptcy
- on (or off) duty — at (or temporarily relieved from) one's work, duty, etc.
- on the off chance — the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency: Chance governs all.
- on the off-chance — If you do something on the off-chance, you do it because you hope that it will succeed, although you think that this is unlikely.
- personnel officer — a worker responsible for recruiting employees and dealing with matters relating to them
- presiding officer — the person who presides over the Scottish Parliament or Welsh Assembly
- probation officer — an officer who investigates and reports on the conduct of offenders who are free on probation.
- publicity officer — a person who is employed to get publicity for an organization, or to provide information about it
- recruiting office — an office where staff are recruited, esp by the military
- registered office — official business address
- returning officer — a public official appointed to conduct and preside at an election.
- right off the bat — Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis. a whip used by a jockey. the act of using a club or racket in a game. the right or turn to use a club or racket.
- sawed-off shotgun — rifle with a short barrel
- statutory offense — a wrong punishable under a statute, rather than at common law.
- take the edge off — If something takes the edge off a situation, usually an unpleasant one, it weakens its effect or intensity.
- take years off sb — If you say that something such as an experience or a way of dressing has taken years off someone, you mean that it has made them look or feel much younger.
- technical offence — an action which is prohibited by law, but for which no blame can be attached to the person who commits it
- the tet offensive — an offensive launched in January–February 1968 by the North Vietnamese Army and the Vietcong. Coinciding with the first day of the Tet, it was a surprise attack on South Vietnamese cities, including Saigon
- unofficial strike — a strike that is not approved by the strikers' trade union
- youthful offender — a young delinquent, especially a first offender, usually from 14 to 21 years old, whom the court tries to correct and guide rather than to punish as a criminal.
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