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noun. A place in which business, clerical, or professional activities are conducted.

noun. The administrative personnel, executives, or staff working in such a place.

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noun. A subdivision of a governmental department.

noun. A major executive division of a government.

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noun. A position of authority, duty, or trust given to a person, as in a government or corporation.

noun. Public position.

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noun. A duty or function assigned to or assumed by someone: synonym: function.

noun. A service or beneficial act done for another.

noun. A ceremony, rite, or service, usually prescribed by liturgy, especially.

noun. The canonical hours.

noun. A prayer service in the Anglican Church, such as Morning or Evening Prayer.

noun. A ceremony, rite, or service for a special purpose, especially the Office of the Dead.

noun. The parts of a house, such as the laundry and kitchen, in which servants carry out household work.

To perform in the way of office or service; serve; perform; transact.

To intrust with an office; place in an office.

To move by means of office or by exercise of official authority.

noun. Service; duty or duties to the performance of which a person is appointed; function assigned by a superior authority; hence, employment; business; that which one undertakes or is expected to do.

noun. That which is performed or is intended or assigned to be done by a particular thing, or which anything is fitted to perform or customarily performs; function.

noun. A position or situation to which certain duties are attached; a post the possession of which imposes certain duties upon the possessor and confers authority for their performance; a post or place held by an officer, an official, or a functionary.

noun. Specifically, a position of authority under a government: as, a man in office; to accept office.

noun. In old English law, jurisdiction; bailiwick: as, a constable sworn “to prevent all bloodshed, outcries, affrays, and rescouses [rescues] done within his office.”

noun. Inquest of office (which see, under inquest).

noun. A building or room in which one transacts business or discharges his professional duties: as, a lawyers or doctor's office; the office of a factory or lumber-yard; especially, a place where public business is transacted: as, the county clerk's office; the post-office; the war-office: also (in the plural), the apartments wherein domestics discharge the several duties attached to a house, as kitchens, pantries, brew-houses, and the like, along with outhouses, such as the stables, etc., of a mansion or palace, or the barns, cow-houses, etc., of a farm.

noun. The persons collectively who transact business in an office: often applied specifically to an insurance company: as, a fire-office.

noun. An act of good or ill voluntarily tendered (usually in a good sense); service: usually in the plural.

noun. Eccles.: The prescribed order or form for a service of the church, or for devotional use, or the service so prescribed; especially, the forms for the canonical hours collectively (the divine office): as, the communion office, the confirmation office, the office of prime, etc.; to recite office.

noun. In the Mozarabic and in some old Gallican and monastic liturgies, in the Uses of Sarum and York, and in the Anglican Prayer-book of 1549, the introit. Also officium.

noun. In canon law, a benefice which carries no jurisdiction with it.

noun. Mark of authority; badge of office.

noun. See the qualifying words.

noun. Synonyms Business, Pursuit, etc. (see occupation), post, situation, place, capacity.

transitive verb. To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.

noun. That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man.

noun. A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority

noun. A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself.

noun. That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings.

noun. The place where any kind of business or service for others is transacted; a building, suite of rooms, or room in which public officers or workers in any organization transact business

noun. The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office.

noun. The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.

noun. Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.

noun. Same as Inquisition, n., 3.

noun. Same as def. 7 above.

noun. an office recited in honor of the Virgin Mary.

noun. an officer; one who has a specific office or duty to perform.

noun. an authenticated or certified copy of a record, from the proper office. See Certified copies, under Copy.

noun. the finding of an inquest of office. See under Inquest.

"Replacing the receiver, he thought urgently of some second-choice number where there would be no answer out of office hours and decided on his solicitor: Those buggers hardly ever turned up even _within _office hours."

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