central office

2 definitions found

central office - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  central office
      n 1: (usually plural) the office that serves as the
           administrative center of an enterprise; "many companies
           have their headquarters in New York" [syn: headquarters,
           central office, main office, home office, home base
           ]

central office - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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)