Office Definition
ôfĭs, ŏfĭs
offices
noun
offices
The function or characteristic action of a particular thing.
Webster's New World
The building, room, or series of rooms in which the affairs of a business, professional person, branch of government, etc. are carried on.
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A governmental department.
The Foreign Office.
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A function or duty assigned to someone, esp. as an essential part of his or her work or position.
Webster's New World
Something performed or intended to be performed for another; (specified kind of) service.
Done through someone's good (or ill) offices.
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Synonyms:
- philanthropy
- oblation
- kindness
- kindliness
- favor
- benignity
- benevolence
- beneficence
- Often used in plural: benefaction
- rite
- observance
- liturgy
- ceremony
- ceremonial
- service
Antonyms:
idiom
in (<i>or</i> out of) office
- currently holding (or not holding) power or a particular position of authority
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Other Word Forms of Office
Noun
Singular:
office
Plural:
officesIdioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Office
- in (or out of) office
Origin of Office
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From Anglo-Norman office, offis etc., and Old French office, from Latin officium (“task, business, duty, official duty, office, court"), probably a contraction of opificium (“the doing of a work, a working"), from opifex (“one who does a work"), from opus (“work") + facere (“to do").
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old French duty from Latin officium dhē- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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