office

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Meaning

1. A ceremonial duty or service
2. A ceremonial duty or service
3. A ceremonial duty or service
4. A ceremonial duty or service
5. A ceremonial duty or service
6. A ceremonial duty or service
7. (obsolete) A ceremonial duty or service
8. A position of responsibility.
9. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
10. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
11. Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
12. A service, a kindness.
13. (slang) Inside information.
14. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work
15. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work
16. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work
17. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly
18. The staff of such places.
19. The administrative departments housed in such places
20. The administrative departments housed in such places
21. The administrative departments housed in such places
22. The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly
23. The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly (euphemistic, dated) a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories.
24. Clipping of inquest of office
25. (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
26. (obsolete,slang) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
27. (slang) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
28. A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
29. (obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
30. (obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
31. (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.

bureau

business office

office staff

government agency

office space

ticket window

federal agency

government department

law office

choral service

printing plant

tall building

official duties

official residence

place of work

important office

public institution

public square

enterprise place

secretary’s office

tenure of office

official organization

chapel service

clerks’ room

obtain a post

orjurisdiction of an

red-tape

private/medical pratice

crockery set

counting-house

clerical work

official complex

Frequency

Hyphenated as

of‧fice

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɒfɪs/

From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y: forming actions”), from op- (“base of opus: work”) + -i- (“connective”) + -fex (“combining form of facere: to do, to make”). The use in reference to office software is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.

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