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Office   /ˈɔfəs/   Listen
Office

noun
1.
Place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed.  Synonym: business office.
2.
An administrative unit of government.  Synonyms: agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency.  "The Census Bureau" , "Office of Management and Budget" , "Tennessee Valley Authority"
3.
The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.  Synonyms: function, part, role.  "The government must do its part" , "Play its role"
4.
(of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power.  Synonym: power.  "During his first year in office" , "During his first year in power" , "The power of the president"
5.
Professional or clerical workers in an office.  Synonym: office staff.
6.
A religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities.
7.
A job in an organization.  Synonyms: berth, billet, place, position, post, situation, spot.



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"Office" Quotes from Famous Books



... been to the office of the Company. Everything is upside down. They say Hilary isn't ...
— Demos • George Gissing
... paper is payable at the office where received, twenty cents per year, or five cents per quarter, in advance; the CHROMOS will be mailed free ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 15, July 9, 1870 • Various
... to think that I had nothing to do, and with my hands in my pockets I turned to the right, strolling towards the railway station, a few yards from which was a level crossing. The station yard and booking office stood on the left, and before the entrance were one or two old-fashioned-looking cabs; one in particular I noticed, having a body like a ...
— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various
... this time forward, all went "merry as a marriage bell." Early in the spring their wedding took place in London, and when one morning Morva brought from Pont-y-fro post office a packet for Ebben Owens containing a wedge of wedding cake and cards, he evinced some show of interest. On the box was written in Gwenda's pretty ...
— Garthowen - A Story of a Welsh Homestead • Allen Raine
... his legal property, and was the president of the first anti-slavery society, bequeathing the cause to his descendants, who have faithfully acquitted themselves of the once contemned but now honored trust, for three generations; for his son succeeded him in the office, his grandson has been and is its strenuous advocate, and his great-grandson now confronts the slaveholding rebels in the Army of the Potomac. His intelligent and patriotic fellow citizens realized and recognized the faith and probity whence arose his moral courage ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various


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