office

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Etymology [edit]

From Anglo-Norman office, offis etc., and Old French office, from Latin officium (“task, business, duty, official duty, office, court”), probably a contraction of opificium (“the doing of a work, a working”), from opifex (“one who does a work”), from opus (“work”) + facere (“to do”).

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Noun [edit]

office (plural offices)

  1. A building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed.
  2. A bureau, an administrative unit of government.
  3. A position of responsibility of some authority within an organisation.
  4. Rite, ceremonial observance of social or religious nature.
  5. Religious service, especially a liturgy officiated by a Christian priest or minister
  6. Major administrative division, notably in certain governmental administrations, either at ministry level (e.g. the British Home Office) or within or dependent on such a department.
  7. (obsolete) A task that one feels obliged to do.
  8. *: ...the office of thy calling shall be for a comfort unto my servant...
    • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Modern Library Edition (1995), page 144
      ...there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice.
  9. (in the plural) The parts of a house given over to household work, storage etc.
    • 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, III:
      A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices.
  10. Abbreviation An office suite; a collection of work‐related computer programs (shortened from several such suites with 'office' in their name)

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Translations [edit]

building or room
administrative unit
position of responsibility
good office
ceremonial service
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References [edit]

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
  • office in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowed from Latin officium.

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Noun [edit]

office m (plural offices)

  1. charge, task, mandate
  2. administrative bureau, department
  3. religious service, notably liturgical office
  4. place where a household's table (food and drink)-related services are conducted, especially by domestic staff

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References [edit]

  • Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

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Verb [edit]

office

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of officiō

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Noun [edit]

office m (oblique plural offices, nominative singular offices, nominative plural office)

  1. office (building; room)
  2. office (position, role, job)
  3. service

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