central office in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for central office in the English»French Dictionary

central office N COMM

central office (of company)

siège m (social)

Translations for central office in the English»French Dictionary

I.Central [Region] (in Scotland)

Central [Region]

la région Central

II.central [Brit ˈsɛntr(ə)l, Am ˈsɛntrəl] ADJ

1. central (in the middle):

central area, courtyard, district

central

in central London

dans le centre de Londres

2. central (in the town centre):

central house, apartment etc

situé en centre-ville

we need a central location for the office

il nous faut un bureau situé au centre-ville

3. central (key):

central argument, feature, message, role

principal

to be central to sth

être essentiel à qc

4. central:

central ADMIN, POL control, management, government, funding, planning

central

I.office [Brit ˈɒfɪs, Am ˈɔfɪs, ˈɑfɪs] N

1. office (room or place of work):

office

bureau m

the accounts office

le service comptable

doctor's/dentist's office Am

cabinet m médical/dentaire

lawyer's office

étude f de notaire

lawyer's office

cabinet m de notaire

to work in an office

travailler dans un bureau, être employé/-e de bureau

the whole office knows

tout le bureau est au courant

a day at the office

une journée au bureau

a day at the office attr equipment, furniture, staff, job

de bureau

to go on an office outing

sortir avec les gens de son bureau

2. office (position):

office

fonction f

office

charge f

to perform the office of

remplir les fonctions de

to be in or hold office president, mayor:

être en fonction

to be in or hold office minister:

avoir un portefeuille

to be in or hold office political party:

être au pouvoir

to take office president, mayor:

entrer en fonction

to take office political party:

arriver au or prendre le pouvoir

to go out of office or leave office president, mayor:

quitter ses fonctions

to go out of office or leave office minister:

perdre son portefeuille

to go out of office or leave office political party:

perdre le pouvoir

to stand Brit or run Am for office

être candidat aux élections

to rise to high office

être promu à un poste élevé

3. office REL:

office

office m

the office for the dead

l'office des morts

II.offices N npl

1. offices (services):

offices form

offices mpl

offices form

aide f

through their good offices

par leurs bons offices

2. offices Brit (of property):

‘the usual offices’ (including outbuildings)

‘cuisine f et dépendances fpl ’

‘the usual offices’ (in smaller house)

‘cuisine f et salle f de bains’

central office in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for central office in the English»French Dictionary

central [ˈsentrəl] ADJ

1. central (close to the middle):

central

central(e)

2. central (paramount):

central

primordial(e)

central issue

essentiel(le)

3. central (national):

central bank

central(e)

office [ˈɒfɪs, Am ˈɑ:fɪs] N

1. office (room for working):

office

bureau m

to stay at the office

rester au bureau

the finance office

le bureau des finances

a doctor's office Am

un cabinet de médecin

2. office (authoritative position):

office

fonction f

to hold office

être au pouvoir

to hold office minister, mayor

être en fonction

to be out of office

ne plus être au pouvoir

to come into office

arriver au pouvoir

Office N Brit (government department)

Office

ministère m

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

For example, suppose a bank's branch office sends instructions to the central office requesting a change in the balance of an account.

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The digital radio service forwards the data to the central office of the trucking company.

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A typical central office may have tens of thousands of pairs of wires that appear on terminal blocks called the main distribution frame (MDF).

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The central office equipment detects the power state of the line and disables service if the circuit is not powered up.

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The digital transmission bypasses the telephone company's central office equipment that handles analogue signals.

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This information is transmitted to the central office, where officials can decide whether to treat the road surface to prevent it from freezing.

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The central office and the central warehouse were almost fully reconstructed in 1994.

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This way, the DSL signal is separated as close as possible to the central office and is not attenuated inside the customer's premises.

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The downstream band is used for communicating from the central office to the end user.

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Their primary purpose is to protect central office equipment from surges of high voltage.

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