Illustration: A small room off a Japanese community hall serves as the administrative centre for an amateur sports association. One staff member answers a landline while another hands a participant a lanyard and retrieves an envelope from an organised tray.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

事じ務む局きょく

jimukyoku

administrative office, secretariat

Example sentences

  1. 事務局じむきょくは私わたしの願書がんしょを受うけ取とっていないと電報でんぽうで知しらせてきた。

    The office telegraphed that they had not received my application.

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  2. 同委員会どういいんかいの元もとで実務じつむを行おこなう組織そしきとして事務局じむきょくがあり、京都きょうとと東京とうきょうにオフィスが置おかれている。

    The bureau was placed under the committee as a working level organization with offices in Kyoto and Tokyo.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 現在げんざいはギャラリーとして活用かつようされており、NPO法人ほうじん・ヴォーリズ建築保存再生運動けんちくほぞんさいせいうんどう「一粒ひとつぶの会かい」の事務局じむきょくとしても使用しようされている。

    Currently the structure is used as a gallery and is used as the secretariat for the NPO called 'Hitotsubu no Kai' charged with preserving and reusing Vories' structures.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 事務局

  • 事matter; thingOnジ・ズKunこと・つかう・つかえる
  • 務task; dutiesOnムKunつとめる
  • 局bureau; boardOnキョクKunつぼね

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