office

  • (noun): A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
  • (noun): A position of responsibility.
  • (noun): Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
  • (noun): An official or group of officials; a personification of officeholders.
  • (noun): A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; moral duty.
  • (noun): The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
  • (noun): Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
  • (noun): A bodily function, urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
  • (noun): (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
  • (noun): Inside information.
  • (noun): A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
  • (noun): The staff of such places.
  • (noun): (in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
  • (noun): (now in the plural) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories.
  • (noun): Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.
  • (noun): A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
  • (noun): A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
  • (noun): A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
  • (noun): A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
  • (verb): To provide (someone) with an office.
  • (verb): To have an office.
  • When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.
  • She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office.
  • The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant.
  • The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.
  • He's from our public relations office.