Смысл: artillery officer

artillery officer[ɔ:ʹtıl(ə)rı͵ɒfısə]
<Í> 1) офицер-артиллерист
2) начальник артиллерии

office Идиома

branch office

an office in another location or city Please contact our branch office in your town or city.

run for office

be a candidate in an election I do not plan to run for office this year. I'm leaving politics.

take office

Idiom(s): take office

Theme: POLITICS

to begin serving as an elected or appointed official.
• When did the mayor take office?
• All the elected officials took office just after the election.

do a land-office business

Idiom(s): do a land-office business

Theme: COMMERCE

to do a large amount of business in a short period of time.
• The ice cream shop always does a land-office business on a hot day.
• The tax collector's office did a land-office business on the day that taxes were due.

box office|box

n., informal 1. The place at movies and theaters where tickets may be purchased just before the performance instead of having ordered them through the telephone or having bought them at a ticket agency. No need to reserve the seats; we can pick them up at the box office. 2. A best selling movie, musical, or drama (where the tickets are all always sold out and people line up in front of the box office). John Wayne's last movie was a regular box office. 3. Anything successful or well liked. Betsie is no longer box office with me.

front office|front|office

n., informal The group of persons who manage a business; the officers. The front office decides how much the workers are paid.

land-office business|business|land-office

n., informal A great rush of business. It was a hot day, and the drive-ins were doing a land-office business in ice cream and cold drinks.

box office

box office
1) The office where seats for a play, concert, or other form of entertainment may be purchased, as in Tickets are available at the box office. It is so called because originally (17th century) it was the place for hiring a box, a special compartment of theater seats set aside for ladies. [Second half of 1700s]
2) The financial receipts from a performance; also, a show's relative success in attracting a paying audience. For example, You may not consider it great art, but this play is good box office. [c. 1900]

front office

front office
The policy-making or executive individuals in an organization, as in I'll have to check with the front office before I can give you a discount. This term was originally underworld slang for police headquarters or the main detective bureau. It soon was extended to other administrative offices and their personnel. [c. 1900]

land-office business

land-office business
A thriving, expanding, or very profitable concern or volume of trade. For example, After the storm they did a land-office business in snow shovels and rock salt. This term, dating from the 1830s, alludes to the throng of applicants to government land offices through which Western lands were sold. It has been used for other booming business since the mid-1800s.