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- DictionaryOf·fice/ˈôfəs/
noun
- 1. a room, set of rooms, or building used as a place for commercial, professional, or bureaucratic work: "an office job" Similar place of businessplace of workworkplaceworkroomstudioheadquartersbasecenter
- ▪ the local center of a large business: "a company that has four U.S. and four European offices" Similar branchdivisionsectionbureaudepartmentagency
- ▪ a room, department, or building used to provide a particular service: "a ticket office"
- ▪ the consulting room of a professional person: North American "a patient walks in to a doctor's office"
- 2. a position of authority or service, typically one of a public nature: "the office of attorney general" Similar postpositionappointmentjobday joboccupationroleplacesituationstationfunctioncapacity
- ▪ tenure of an official position, especially a government position: "a year ago, when the President took office"
- ▪ the quarters, staff, or collective authority of a particular government department or agency: "the Foreign Office"
- 3. a service or kindness done for another person or group of people: "rescued through the good offices of the Italian Ambassador, he was returned safely to England" Similar assistancehelpaidservicesinterventionintercessionmediationintermediationagencysupportbackingpatronageaegisauspicesadvocacy
- ▪ a duty attaching to one's position; a task or function: dated "the offices of a nurse" Similar choredutyjobtaskobligationassignmentserviceresponsibilitychargecommissionworkemployment
- 4. the series of services of prayers and psalms said (or chanted) daily by Roman Catholic priests, members of religious orders, and other clergy.
- ▪ a prayer service conducted daily as part of the Divine Office: "the noon office"
Word Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin officium ‘performance of a task’ (in medieval Latin also ‘office, divine service’), based on opus ‘work’ + facere ‘do’.
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