Homeoffice
See also: home office and Home Office
German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Borrowed from English home office.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhoːˌmɔfɪs/, /ˈhoːmˌʔɔfɪs/, /ˈhɔʊ̯-/
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Noun
Homeoffice n (strong, genitive Homeoffices or Homeoffice, plural Homeoffices)
- (countable) home office (place at home for telecommuting)
- Synonyms: Heimbüro, Telearbeitsplatz
- (uncountable, metonymically) (the practice of) telecommuting
- Synonyms: Heimarbeit, Telearbeit
- 2022 July 20, Shoko Bethke, “Arbeiten bei Rekordhitze: Die Fenster besser geöffnet lassen”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, ISSN 0931-9085:
- Alle anderen, die keinen festen Telearbeitsplatz haben, sondern gelegentlich Homeoffice machen, sind selbst für den Schutz vor Hitze zuständig.
- (please add an English translation of this quote)
Declension
Usage notes
The Duden prescribes that unadapted borrowings from English consisting of two nouns be written solid (Homeoffice) or, if it improves legibility, hyphenated (Home-Office). The spaced spelling (Home Office) is proscribed.[1]
Further reading
- “Homeoffice” in Duden online
- “Homeoffice” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
References
- “Schreibung von Fremdwörtern aus dem Englischen [Spelling of loan words from English]”, in Duden (in German), Cornelsen Verlag GmbH, (please provide a date or year), archived from the original on 2023-01-20
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