oficina

plural oficinas

1. A nitrate-producing factory in a Spanish-speaking country.

   Neighbouring oficinas place nitrate f.o.b. at shipping ports at a cost of from 5s to 5s. 6d. a quintal.

   1907 July 22, F. G. Lomax, “Copy of letter from Mr. F. G. Lomax to the Law Debenture Corporation (Limited)”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 16,311, London, published 8 August 1907, page 1, column 6

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   The external aspect of the oficina was not unlike that of a north-country coal or iron mine—tall chimneys and machinery, corrugated iron buildings, offices and houses, the shanties of workmen, a high bank of refuse.

   1890, William Howard Russell, “Iquique to the Pampas”, in A Visit to Chile and the Nitrate Fields of Tarapacá, Etc., London: J[ames] S[prent] Virtue & Co., […], page 171

   Fig. 9 shows an oficina that has derived its nitrate from one of the small “islands” or “peninsulas” rising above the playa which can be seen surrounding the workings on all sides but the left.

   1942-05, John Lyon Rich, “Physiographic Setting of the Nitrate Deposits of Tarapacá, Chile: Its Bearing on the Problem of Origin and Concentration”, in Economic Geology, volume XXXVII, number 3, →ISSN, page 198