Meaning & use
domiciliation services
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Meanings
nounpluralbusinessfinance
Business services that provide or arrange an official registered address for a company or person.
Grammar: Used as a plural noun phrase; it takes a plural verb: 'Domiciliation services are offered by the bank.'
Patterns
- offer domiciliation services
- use domiciliation services
- domiciliation services for companies
The bank offers domiciliation services for foreign companies that want a local address.
Setting up in the country was easy once we hired domiciliation services.
Their domiciliation services include mail handling and a registered office.
nounplurallegalformal
Administrative help with legally establishing a person's or company's official place of residence.
Grammar: Also plural; often followed by 'for' plus the person or company being registered.
Patterns
- domiciliation services for someone
- provide domiciliation services
The agency provides domiciliation services for expatriates moving to the city.
She used domiciliation services to register her new business address.
Common combinations
- offer domiciliation services
- Several banks in the region offer domiciliation services to overseas investors.
- domiciliation services for companies
- The firm specializes in domiciliation services for companies entering the European market.
- registered office
- Their registered office address is handled by a domiciliation service.
- company formation
- Company formation and domiciliation services are often sold together.
Synonyms and how they differ
- registered office services
- Narrower and more British: it stresses the legal address itself rather than the whole package of help.
- company secretarial services
- A broader business term covering legal paperwork, of which address registration may be only one part.
Word family
- domicile noun
- The official home or registered address of a person or company.
- domiciliary adjective
- Relating to someone's home, especially care or visits given there.
- domiciled adjective
- Officially living or based in a particular place.
Commonly confused: domiciliation services or domestication?
domiciliation services vs domestication
Domestication means taming animals or plants; domiciliation is about official residence or address.
Practice
The bank's new branch mainly provides domiciliation services ___ foreign investors.
Choose one answer.
'Services for someone' is the usual pattern when naming the people helped. 'Services to someone' can occur but sounds more like a formal report of what is given; 'with' and 'at' do not fit this structure.
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