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office
  1. (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
    1. (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
    2. (Christianity, obsolete) Mass, (particularly) the introit sung at its beginning.
    3. (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
    4. (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
    5. (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
    6. (Protestant) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
    7. (Christianity) Last rites.
  2. A position of responsibility.
  3. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
  4. (obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
  5. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
  6. (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
  7. (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
  8. (obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
  9. (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
  10. (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
  11. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
    1. A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
    2. A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
    3. (medicine) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
  12. (figuratively) The staff of such places.
  13. (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
    1. A ministry or other department of government.
    2. (Catholicism, usually capitalized) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
    3. A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
  14. (now in the plural, dated) 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.
  15. (Britain law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.
  16. (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
  17. (figuratively, slang, obsolete) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
  18. (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
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  20. Examples:
    1. “At the end of the day, I try to leave work at the office where it belongs.”
      “The bank has just opened a new office in this building.”
      “I say this with the authority of my office as president.”
officer
  1. One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical organization, especially in military, police or government organizations.
  2. One who holds a public office.
  3. An agent or servant imparted with the ability, to some degree, to act on initiative.
  4. (colloquial, military) A commissioned officer.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “He rocketed to the post of chief financial officer in less than eight years.”
      “It was held that the bank was not liable to the plaintiff for the money because the cashier, in his dealings with the plaintiff, was acting as an individual and not as an officer of the bank.”
      “If a person is employed by the government and acting as a government officer, there is no doubt that there is state action and the Constitution applies.”
officiant
  1. A person who officiates at a religious ceremony (other than the Eucharist)
  2. A person who officiates at a civil (non-religious) wedding ceremony.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “Please make sure to double-check the credentials and qualifications of the officiant before booking them for your wedding ceremony.”
      “Yesterday it was standing room only in the chapel during the short, humanist service conducted by the chapel officiant.”
      “All told, 21 worship services take place in the chapel every week, whether anyone but the officiant is there or not.”
officeholder
  1. A person who holds an office, especially one appointed or elected to a public office; an incumbent
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Not one Republican officeholder or activist in Arlington would oppose the tax.”
      “Every California governor in the past half-century has been either a veteran state officeholder or a celebrity.”
      “Among her fellow Democrats, she is the only woman officeholder who has succeeded in a statewide campaign.”
officescape
  1. The landscape within an office; a landscape of offices.
officewear
  1. Clothes designed to be worn while working in an office.
officeholding
  1. The holding of an office (formal role).
officeship
  1. The position or role of holding an office.
officegoer
  1. (chiefly India) One who works in an office.
officership
  1. The position or role of an officer.
  2. Examples:
    1. “All airmen, junior NCOs and senior NCOs must learn how to function as effective leaders in the officership environment.”
      “Lind is trying to get me to enter the same grade of officership with himself.”
      “Without it their officership will be like a body without a soul, or like a locomotive without any power.”
officeress
  1. (humorous) A female officer.
officiator
  1. A person who officiates.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “But we did, in a civic ceremony in downtown Vancouver, BC, conducted with a speed and romance that suggested our officiator was double-parked.”
      “But the rest were gathered for the Sunday service, and waited the officiator.”
      “Not content with singing licentious songs in the choir, they sat and played at dice on the altar, at the side of the officiator.”
officiation
  1. The act of officiating.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Inviting me to a recent wedding in Virginia, the proud parents asked if I would do some sort of officiation.”
      “Globe, retired private landlord and residential lettings specialist Slow Mr Speaker COMMONS Speaker John Bercow's officiation of PMQs causes me concern.”
      “He asked me to be his witness during the officiation of the marriage.”
officiate
  1. A person appointed to office
officeholders
  1. plural of officeholder
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “In Delaware, officeholders had to attest to their belief in the Holy Trinity.”
      “Nevertheless, incumbent officeholders, candidates, and aspirants are pragmatic to a fault, and their main concern is with winning elections.”
      “It will take more than the force of ideas to convince most Democratic officeholders to turn against the teachers unions.”
officerships
  1. plural of officership
officescapes
  1. plural of officescape
officiations
officegoers
  1. plural of officegoer
officeships
  1. plural of officeship
officiators
officeresses
  1. plural of officeress
officiants
officers
  1. plural of officer
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “There were dozens of police officers standing guard along the parade route.”
      “As I waded through the mud to go down into the bombproof, it struck me uneasily that our officers glanced at each other.”
      “There was no way that the two officers in the car could not have seen the bizarre, blazingly lit scene before them.”
offices
  1. plural of office
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Only too happy to wet his whistle, he had two cases dispatched to his London offices yesterday.”
      “The worst of the weather had come on a holiday, with offices and most shops closed, and people already indoors, at family celebrations.”
      “Once again, elections were held for aedile, praetor, quaestor and the other traditional offices of the Republic.”
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