• 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, especially 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.
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• the duty, function, or part of a particular person or agency: to act in the office of adviser. • ( initial capital letter) an operating agency or division of certain departments of the U.S. Government: Office of Community Services. • ( initial capital letter) British. A major administrative unit or department of the national government: the Foreign Office.
Hint, 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. • Ecclesiastical. • the prescribed order or form for a service of the church or for devotional use. • the services so prescribed. • Also called.
The prayers, readings from Scripture, and psalms that must be recited every day by all who are in major orders. • a ceremony or rite, especially for the dead. • a service or task to be performed; assignment; chore: little domestic offices.
• offices, Chiefly British. • the parts of a house, as the kitchen, pantry, or laundry, devoted mainly to household work. • the stables, barns, cowhouses, etc., of a farm.
• Older Slang.. Mid-13c., 'a post, an employment to which certain duties are attached,' from Anglo-French and Old French ofice 'place or function; divine service' (12c. In Old French) or directly from Latin officium 'service, kindness, favor; official duty, function, business; ceremonial observance,' (in Ecclesiastical Latin, 'church service'), literally 'work-doing,' from ops (genitive opis) 'power, might, abundance, means' (related to opus 'work;' see ) + stem of facere 'do, perform' (see ).
Meaning 'place for conducting business' first recorded 1560s. Office hours attested from 1841.