The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word PREMISES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Times
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More clues leading to the result PREMISES
- Rep I mess about in place of business?
- Leader of party's lax about closure of remote office
- Parking neglectful outside European place of business
- Company’s office promises energy for nothing
- 23D gets negligent, going round European building site
- The aforesaid component of sleep, REM, is essential
- Propositions made in place of business
- Property propositions
- Business building bad press around record label
- Commercial property assumptions taken as true
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The straight part
We know that "office" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case office = premises.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does PREMISES mean?
PREMISES noun- Land, and all the built structures on it, especially when considered as a single place.
- The subject of a conveyance or deed
- A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a condition; a supposition.
- Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
- (usually in the plural) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted.
- (usually in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
- (authorship) The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.