Collocation
office building
a building that is mainly used for offices where people work
Definition
'office building' is a common English collocation. a building that is mainly used for offices where people work
office + building
“Their company moved into a new office building downtown.”
Examples
- Our office building has a coffee shop on the first floor.
- The new office building is next to the subway station.
- Security checks everyone who enters the office building.
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- She works on the tenth floor of an office building in the city center.
- We met in the lobby of the office building to sign the papers.
- The office building was evacuated after the fire alarm went off.
- They converted the old warehouse into an office building with open-plan floors.
- A power outage shut down the entire office building for the afternoon.
- The office building complies with new energy-efficiency regulations.
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