register office

noun

1. a government office where civil marriages are performed and births, marriages, and deaths are recorded Often calledregistry office

Example Sentences

The total expense, including superintendents and the register-office in London, would amount to about 80,000 per annum.

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The man, previously instructed, drove rapidly off to the register office.

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The watchman thanked him and went to the Register Office, where he found he was going in the wrong direction and returned.

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Then came the scruples, the flight, the white cottage by the Thames, the marriage at the local register office.

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On the spot where its old prison used to stand within the palace precincts, the diocesan Register Office was erected in 1760.

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