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   office

   /ˈɒfɪs/

   noun

   • 1. a room, set of rooms, or building used as a place for commercial, professional, or bureaucratic work: "an office job" Similar place of businessplace of workworkplaceworkroomstudioheadquartersbasecentre
   • ▪ the local centre of a large business: "a company which has four US and four European offices" Similar branchdivisionsectionbureaudepartmentagency
   • ▪ a room, department, or building used to provide a particular service: "a ticket office"
   • ▪ the consulting room of a professional person: North American "a patient walks in to a doctor's office"
   • 2. a position of authority or service, typically one of a public nature: "the office of chief constable" Similar postpositionappointmentjobday joboccupationroleplacesituationstationfunctioncapacity
   • ▪ tenure of an official position, especially that of a Minister of State or of the party forming the government: "a year ago, when the President took office"
   • ▪ the quarters, staff, or collective authority of a particular government department or agency: "the Foreign Office"
   • 3. a service done for another or others: "rescued through the good offices of the Italian Ambassador, he was returned safely to England" Similar assistancehelpaidservicesinterventionintercessionmediationintermediationagencysupportbackingpatronageaegisauspicesadvocacy
   • ▪ a duty attaching to one's position: dated "the offices of a nurse" Similar choredutyjobtaskobligationassignmentserviceresponsibilitychargecommissionworkemployment
   • 4. the series of services of prayers and psalms said (or chanted) daily by Catholic priests, members of religious orders, and other clergy.
   • ▪ a service conducted daily as part of the office: "the noon office"
   • 5. the parts of a house given over to household work or to storage. dated British
   • ▪ a toilet. euphemistic

   Word Origin Middle English: via Old French from Latin officium ‘performance of a task’ (in medieval Latin also ‘office, divine service’), based on opus ‘work’ + facere ‘do’.

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   What does it mean if you have an office job?

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   Where did the word office come from?

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   What's the difference between an office and a President's Office?

   • Your office is the place you work, meeting with colleagues, sitting at a desk, and wearing sneakers on Casual Friday. The President of the United States has an office too, but it's a different kind: his or her office is a position of power.

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   What is the difference between function and office?

   • function, office, duty, province mean the acts or operations expected of a person or thing. function implies a definite end or purpose or a particular kind of work. office is typically applied to the function or service associated with a trade or profession or a special relationship to others.

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   What is an example of a government office?

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