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intelligence office

noun

  1. Obsolete. an employment agency for the placement of domestic help.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of intelligence office1

First recorded in 1685–95

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Example Sentences

“This paper is coming right out of the intelligence office,” he remembered thinking.

Those structures gave us the best location to shell the governor and police and the intelligence office.

Mr. Hutson, for years, kept in New York, an intelligence office.

The most common method of engaging a servant is through an intelligence office.

It is a sort of intelligence-office for books, replied the Collection.

All the correspondents were summoned at noon to the Intelligence Office.

Even the kindest of us sometimes say, "She looks like a cook" or, "I feel as if I were dressed for the intelligence office."

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