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assay office
noun
- a local testing station for assaying ore, as gold or silver, especially a government station maintained in connection with the registration of mineral claims, purchases of gold, or the like.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of assay office1
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Example Sentences
A paste-pot left overnight in an assay office was found in the morning filled with the oddest collection of rubbish.
There is little left here, though the assay office, built up against a massive square rock still stands.
The house in which he was born was a large yellow mansion, standing on the spot on which the Assay Office has since been built.
It was a good half minute before I even wondered what had brought Macartney out of his bed in the assay office.
He had turned so white that I remembered his faint in the assay office, like you do remember things that don't matter.
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