Meaning of office | Babel Free

Definitions

1. office (a room used for non-manual work)
2. A ceremonial duty or service, particularly: The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church. Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin. A daily service without the eucharist. The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons
3. A ceremonial duty or service, particularly
4. oficina;doctor's ___ → consulta, consultorio; [business] ___;
5. workshop
6. The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church
7. A ceremonial duty or service
8. The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
9. A place in which business, clerical, or professional activities are conducted.
10. laboratory (in a pharmacy)
11. Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin
12. Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
13. A subdivision of a governmental department: the US Patent Office.
14. A daily service without the eucharist
15. A daily service without the eucharist.
16. A position of authority, duty, or trust given to a person, as in a government or corporation: the office of vice president.
17. The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons
18. The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
19. A duty or function assigned to or assumed by someone: Our host performed the office of tour guide. See Synonyms at function.
20. Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
21. Ecclesiastical A ceremony, rite, or service, usually prescribed by liturgy, especially:a. The canonical hours.
    Ecclesiastical
22. Last rites.
23. offices Chiefly British The parts of a house, such as the laundry and kitchen, in which servants carry out household work.
    Chiefly British
24. Mass, (particularly) the introit sung at its beginning.
    obsolete
25. a room or set of rooms in which business, professional duties, clerical work, etc, are carried out
26. A position of responsibility.
27. (often plural) the building or buildings in which the work of an organization, such as a business or government department, is carried out
    often plural
28. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
29. a commercial or professional business: the architect's office approved the plans.
30. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
31. Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
    archaic
32. A service, a kindness.
    plural, regional
33. Inside information.
    figuratively, slang
34. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly
35. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work
36. A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
37. A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
38. A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
    US
39. The staff of such places.
    figuratively
40. The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly
    figuratively
41. The administrative departments housed in such places
    Australia, UK, capitalized, figuratively, usually
42. A ministry or other department of government.
    Australia, UK, capitalized, figuratively, usually
43. Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
    abbreviation, alt-of, capitalized, figuratively, usually
44. A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
    figuratively
45. The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly (euphemistic, dated) a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories.
    dated, in-plural
46. Clipping of inquest of office
    UK, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, historical
47. A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
    obsolete
48. A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
    figuratively, obsolete, slang
49. A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
    UK, dated, slang
50. A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
51. An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
    obsolete
52. A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
    obsolete
53. The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“Golde (gaue he him)[…]for all maner of veſſels of euery offyce[…]”

“In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily.”

“His spirituall exercises were chiefly Prayer, the H. Sacrifice of Masse, his Canonicall Houres or diuine Office.”

“The deuout offices of balming and anointing the dead bodies[…]”

“To show their loue in this last office done To a dead friend.”

“I[…]will be first to render thee the decent offices due to the dead.”

“The office, or Introite, (as they call it).”

“When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.”

“Do not conflate the officeholder with the office; the distinction sometimes matters.”

“[…]in as moche as I am the apoſtle off the gentyls I will magnify myn office[…]”

“I do solemnly swear... that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."”

“She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office.”

“Fla.[…]Well, would I were / Gently put out of Office, before I were forc'd out[…]”

“The Tories had been in office ten years.”

“Ang.... Doe you your office, or giue vp your Place, And you shall well be spar'd.”

“The Sun was ſunk, and after him the Starr / Of Heſperus, whoſe Office is to bring / Twilight upon the Earth[…]”

“The Antients would certainly have invoked the Goddeſs Flora for this Purpoſe, and it would have been no Difficulty for their Prieſts or Politicians to have perſuaded the People of the real Preſence of the Deity, though a plain Mortal had perſonated her, and performed her Office.”

“A woman[…]might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife.”

“[…]there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend, the certain evils of such a choice.”

“In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.”

“I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud,[…]and the gown which had been let down to hide it, not doing its office.”

“These ‘Pacific boom-lateens’... are believed to derive from a kind of sprit-sail... in which the upper sprit performs the office of a more or less aft-raking mast.”

“The anxious businessman will learn that in most of Southeast Asia,... presenting your business card with your left hand is an affront, every decent Moslem knowing the filthy, smelly offices you reserve that left hand for.”

“The secretary prevailed at the negotiations through the good offices of the Freedonian ambassador.”

“...which we have hitherto forborne to graunt... for the evell offices whiche her other Secretary did there.”

“Bush. Thither will I with you, for little office Will the hatefull commons perfourme for vs, Except like curs to teare vs all to pieces...”

“One of the Maxims which the Devil, in a late Viſit upon Earth, left to his Diſciples, is, when once you are got up, to kick the Stool from under you. In plain Engliſh, when you have made your Fortune by the good Offices of a Friend, you are adviſed to diſcard him as ſoon as you can.”

“I[…]am sure you will be too generous to do us any ill offices.”

“And the office of thy calling shall be for a comfort unto my servant, Joseph Smith, Jun., thy husband, in his afflictions, with consoling words, in the spirit of meekness.”

“[…]he got her slippers and took off her boots. It delighted him to perform menial offices.”

“Giving the office—is when you suffer any person, who may stand behind your chair, to look over your hand.”

“"[…]What is there for me in it?" "Not a shilling." "What? Wasn't it I that gave the information? Where would you have been if I had not given you the office?"”

“The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant.”

“Now it came to paſſe that at what time the chest was brought vnto the kings office, by the hand of the Leuites[…]”

“Griffith, having taken offices a few doors off, also carried on the business of a solicitor.”

“We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case.”

“An English lawyer, whether barrister or solicitor, never has an office, but always chambers.”

“Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.”

“The “Pall Mall Gazette” had its offices[…]in Catherine Street[…]”

“There will be some of the family waiting for you at the coach-office.”

“This one was made out at a private office—Office is American for Surgery.”

“The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.”

“He's from our public relations office.”

“The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.”

“A Biscayner is capable to be a Cavalier of any of the three habits without any scrutiny to be made of the Office, whether he be, limpio de la sangre de los Moros, that is cleare of the bloud of the Moores or no.”

“They abiured their Heresy bublikly [sic] before the Commissary of the holy office.”

“He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office.”

“But there is an Insuring-Office set up in the Gospel, as to the venture of our eternities.”

“Would not an Office of Insurance for Servants be of Service, and what Methods are proper for the erecting such an Office?”

“[…]there are advertising offices, and[…]by applying to them I should have no doubt of very soon meeting with something that would do.”

“[…]a large Danish sun or star hanging round his neck by a blue ribbon[…]had given him the appearance of being insured in some extraordinary Fire Office.”

“As for the Offices, let them stand at some Distance from the House, with some low covered Galleries, to pass from them to the Palace it self.”

“... proposals for erecting 500 Publick Offices of Ease in London and Westminster...”

“A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices.”

“Only in planted areas does one find old examples of planned ‘courtyard farms’ where the house and offices enclose a square or rectangular yard.”

“The bathroom's to the right and the usual offices next to it.”

“Aft of the lobby... is the dining saloon for the passengers with the offices of necessity on either side of it.”

“If they find the treason or felony... of the party accused... the king is thereupon, by virtue of this office found, intitled to have his forfeitures.”

“If the Crown claimed the land of an idiot, the person had first to be found an idiot by office.”

“All hunt in James Whitendales office.”

“His Office, any Man's ordinary Haunt, or Plying-place, be it Tavern, Ale-house, Gaming-house.”

“I withdraw into ‘the office’, otherwise the observer's cockpit.”

“In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.”

“‘Up in the office they too knew it.’ ‘The office? You mean the flight deck?’ ‘Just that. No more. No less. The office.’”

“[…]For who would beare... The pangs of despiz'd loue, the lawes delay, The insolence of office... When he himselfe might his quietas make... With a bare bodkin?”

“Ped. Now Mr. Office: What is the Reason that your vigilant Greatness And your Wife's wonderful wiseness have lock'd up from me The way to see my Mistress? Who's Dog's dead now, That you observe these Vigils?”

“Cassio.... Whom I, with all the Office of my heart Intirely honour[…]”

“Washing themselves, as they doe also after the offices of Nature.”

“I never, since I left England, till now, have regal'd Myself with a good house of Office... the holes in Germany are... too round, chiefly owing... to the broader bottoms of the Germans.”

“The very clerks,—those somewhat dirty springs / Of office, or the House of Office[…]”

“[…]whan the Quene of riche Arabia sawe all the wyſzdome of Salomon[…]⁊ the offyces of his miniſters, and their garmentes[…]ſhe wondred exceadingly[…]”

“At Rome (nor think me partial to the Poor) / All Offices of ours are out of Door[…]”

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