office
IPA: ˈɔfʌs
noun
- (religion) A ceremonial duty or service
- (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
- (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
- (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
- (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
- (Protestant) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
- (Christianity) Last rites.
- (Christianity, obsolete) Mass, (particularly) the introit sung at its beginning.
- A position of responsibility.
- Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
- A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
- (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
- (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
- (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
- A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
- (chiefly US, medicine) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
- (figuratively) The staff of such places.
- (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places
- (UK, Australia, usually capitalized, with clarifying modifier) A ministry or other department of government.
- A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
- (now in the plural, dated) 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.
- (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
- (figuratively, slang, obsolete) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
- (UK military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
- (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
- (obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
- (obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
- (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
- (Catholicism, usually capitalized) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy. [The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.]
- (UK law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.
verb
- To provide (someone) with an office.
- (intransitive) To have an office.
Examples of "office" in Sentences
- The public office in question was the office of constable.
- The office is one of the traditional sinecure offices of state.
- The chief operating officer of the company is known as the clerk.
- Equipage is the unit, as warrant officers, Seniors officers, etc.
- III. iii.64 (386,9) season'd office] All _office established_ and
- At the office -- at the _office_, mind -- I received a letter from
- The main government office is the office of the Deputy Commissioner.
- The officers are included in the state cadre of civil service officers.
- This was refused at the office, unless he would pay for office* copies.
- The commissary officer is the centralized authority for a task or office.
- The office was unrelated to the office of President of the United States.
- They also serve as the zoning officer and the Sewage Enforcement officer.
- In 2009, the Sacramento office was closed and the Norfolk office was downsized.
- More and more, the term office defines a state of activity rather than a place.
- Sanford not only has no political future, every day he remains in office is another black eye to the GOP in a region where they cannot afford it.
- We provide that a Cabinet minister shall hold his office, _not for a fixed term, not until the Senate shall consent to his removal, but as long as the power that appoints him holds the office_. "
- 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.
- A passage frown Jerome's _Epistle to Evangelus_ is often quoted in works on church government, as equalising, or nearly so, the office of bishop and presbyter; but the drift of the argument seems to be, to show that the _site_ of a bishop's see, be it great or small, important or otherwise, does not affect the episcopal _office_.
- No person shall be capable of acting in any office Civil, Military [or Ecclesiastical] * The Qualifications of all not otherwise directed, shall be an oath of fidelity to state and the having given no bribe to obtain their office* who shall have given any bribe to obtain such office, or who shall not previously take an oath of fidelity to the state.