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office
[ aw-fis, of-is ]
noun
- a room, set of rooms, or building where the business of a commercial or industrial organization or of a professional person is conducted:
the main office of an insurance company; a doctor's office.
- a room assigned to a specific person or a group of persons in a commercial or industrial organization:
Her office is next to mine.
- a business or professional organization:
He went to work in an architect's office.
- the staff or designated part of a staff at a commercial or industrial organization:
The whole office was at his wedding.
- a position of duty, trust, or authority, especially in the government, a corporation, a society, or the like:
She was elected twice to the office of president.
- employment or position as an official:
to seek office.
- the duty, function, or part of a particular person or agency:
to act in the office of adviser.
Synonyms: trust, charge, responsibility
- (initial capital letter) an operating agency or division of certain departments of the U.S. Government:
Office of Community Services.
- (initial capital letter) British. a major administrative unit or department of the national government:
the Foreign Office.
- Slang. hint, signal, or warning; high sign.
- Often offices. something, whether good or bad, done or said for or to another:
He obtained a position through the offices of a friend.
- Ecclesiastical.
- the prescribed order or form for a service of the church or for devotional use.
- the services so prescribed.
- Also called divine office. the prayers, readings from Scripture, and psalms that must be recited every day by all who are in major orders.
- a ceremony or rite, especially for the dead.
- a service or task to be performed; assignment; chore:
little domestic offices.
- offices, Chiefly British.
- the parts of a house, as the kitchen, pantry, or laundry, devoted mainly to household work.
- the stables, barns, cowhouses, etc., of a farm.
- Older Slang. privy.
office
/ ˈɒfɪs /
noun
- a room or set of rooms in which business, professional duties, clerical work, etc, are carried out
- ( as modifier )
an office boy
office furniture
- often plural the building or buildings in which the work of an organization, such as a business or government department, is carried out
- a commercial or professional business
the architect's office approved the plans
- the group of persons working in an office
it was a happy office until she came
- capital when part of a name (in Britain) a department of the national government
the Home Office
- capital when part of a name in the US
- a governmental agency, esp of the Federal government
- a subdivision of such an agency or of a department
Office of Science and Technology
- a position of trust, responsibility, or duty, esp in a government or organization
to seek office
the office of president
- ( in combination )
an office-holder
- duty or function
the office of an administrator
- often plural a minor task or service
domestic offices
- often plural an action performed for another, usually a beneficial action
through his good offices
- a place where tickets, information, etc, can be obtained
a ticket office
- Christianity
- often plural a ceremony or service, prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities, esp one for the dead
- the order or form of these
- RC Church the official daily service
- short for divine office
- plural the parts of a house or estate where work is done, goods are stored, etc
- euphemistic.usually plural a lavatory (esp in the phrase usual offices )
- in office(of a government) in power
- out of office(of a government) out of power
- the office slang.a hint or signal
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Other Words From
- office·less adjective
- outoffice noun
- sub·office noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of office1
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Idioms and Phrases
see box office ; front office ; land-office business ; take office .Discover More
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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