central office

Noun

Synonyms: headquarters central office main office home office home base

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

(usually plural) the office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise“many companies have their headquarters in New York”Synonyms: headquarters central office main office home office home base

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

central office

<communications> The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.

(1995-03-20)