registry office

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) Brit a name often used for a register office

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Translations

مَكْتَبُ التَسْجِيل

matrika

folkeregister

Standesamt

ληξιαρχείο

notaría registro

maistraatti

bureau de l’état civil

matični ured

anagrafe ufficio di stato civile

レジスターオフィス

등기소

burgerlijke stand

sorenskriverkontor

urząd stanu cywilnego

cartório conservatória

ЗАГС

สำนักทะเบียน

evlendirme dairesi

phòng hộ tịch

登记处

registry office

n (Brit) → Standesamt nt; to get married in a registry office → standesamtlich heiraten

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

registry office

n (Brit) → anagrafe f
to get married in a registry office → sposarsi in municipio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

registry office

→ مَكْتَبُ التَسْجِيل matrika folkeregister Standesamt ληξιαρχείο notaría, registro maistraatti bureau de l’état civil matični ured anagrafe レジスターオフィス 등기소 burgerlijke stand sorenskriverkontor urząd stanu cywilnego cartório, conservatória ЗАГС folkbokföringskontor, där även borgerlig vigsel förrättas สำนักทะเบียน evlendirme dairesi phòng hộ tịch 登记处

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Would you come round with me to the registry office? There's a housemaid who won't say yes but doesn't say no."

The registry office was holding its morning reception.

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Anthony's last words to Flora referred to the registry office where they were married ten days later.

After leaving the Registry Office Flora de Barral and Roderick Anthony had gone for a walk in a park.

He had offered it to her on coming out of the Registry Office, and she had accepted it silently.

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"It's all done in five minutes at a Registry Office nowadays, if you think the Church service a little florid--which it is, though there are noble things in it."

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This fellow is madly, insanely, in love with her, but some two years ago, when he was only a lad, and before he really knew her, for she had been away five years at a boarding-school, what does the idiot do but get into the clutches of a barmaid in Bristol and marry her at a registry office? No one knows a word of the matter, but you can imagine how maddening it must be to him to be upbraided for not doing what he would give his very eyes to do, but what he knows to be absolutely impossible.

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We were quietly married at a registry office, and we returned to Norfolk a wedded couple.

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"There isn't the same demand for registry office weddings now.

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Mum-of-two Claire Campbell, 26, is set to wed her fiance, forklift truck driver Brian Cave, on Saturday at Prescot registry office, celebrating afterwards with a marquee in the garden to host a reception for 50 guests - but now she fears her wedding will be washed out.

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The brown clapboard colonial house was hurriedly outfitted in recent weeks to accommodate a full-service registry office.

Turnpike Registry open, questioned

Not forgetting everybody from UHCW A & E, the Coroners Office and Registry Office. We have been overwhelmed by all the kindness shown.