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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024of•fice /ˈɔfɪs, ˈɑfɪs/USA pronunciation n. - [countable] a place where business, work, or one's job is conducted or accomplished.
- a group of persons in a place where business is conducted:[countable]The whole office contributed.
- a business or professional organization:[countable]a law office.
- a position of duty, trust, or authority:[uncountable]the office of president.
- employment or position as an official: [uncountable]to seek political office.[countable]He had never held a political office before this one.
- Government a government agency, or a division of a government department:[countable* usually: Office;often: the + ~]the Foreign Office.
- Often, offices. [plural] something done for another:Through the good offices of a friend I was hired.
See -oper-, -fac-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024of•fice (ô′fis, of′is),USA pronunciation n. - a room, set of rooms, or building where the business of a commercial or industrial organization or of a professional person is conducted:the main office of an insurance company; a doctor's office.
- a room assigned to a specific person or a group of persons in a commercial or industrial organization:Her office is next to mine.
- a business or professional organization:He went to work in an architect's office.
- the staff or designated part of a staff at a commercial or industrial organization:The whole office was at his wedding.
- a position of duty, trust, or authority, esp. in the government, a corporation, a society, or the like:She was elected twice to the office of president.
- employment or position as an official:to seek office.
- the duty, function, or part of a particular person or agency:to act in the office of adviser.
- Government(cap.) an operating agency or division of certain departments of the U.S. Government:Office of Community Services.
- Government, British Terms(cap.) [Brit.]a major administrative unit or department of the national government:the Foreign Office.
- Slang Termshint, signal, or warning;
high sign. - Often, offices. something, whether good or bad, done or said for or to another:He obtained a position through the offices of a friend.
- Religion[Eccles.]
- Religionthe prescribed order or form for a service of the church or for devotional use.
- Religionthe services so prescribed.
- ReligionAlso called divine office. the prayers, readings from Scripture, and psalms that must be recited every day by all who are in major orders.
- Religiona ceremony or rite, esp. for the dead.
- a service or task to be performed;
assignment;
chore:little domestic offices. - British Terms offices, [Chiefly Brit.]
- the parts of a house, as the kitchen, pantry, or laundry, devoted mainly to household work.
- the stables, barns, cowhouses, etc., of a farm.
- Slang Terms[Older Slang.]privy.
- Latin officium service, duty, ceremony, presumably contraction of opificium, equivalent. to opi-, combining form akin to opus opus + -fic-, combining form of facere to make, do1 + -ium -ium
- Old French
- Middle English 1200–50
- 5.See corresponding entry in Unabridged post, station, berth, situation. See appointment.
- 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged responsibility, charge, trust.
- 13.See corresponding entry in Unabridged work, duty.
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