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Definition & Synonyms
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• Office
- (n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.
- (n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.
- (n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
- (n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings.
- (n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the registers office; a lawyers office.
- (n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.
- (v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.
- (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.
- (n.) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
Synonyms:
Agency, Authority, Berth, Bureau, Function, Part, Place, Position, Post, Power, Role, Situation, Spot,
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• Officeholder
- (n.) An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
Synonyms:
Incumbent, Officer,
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• Officered
- (imp. & p. p.) of Officer
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