good offices

English

Etymology

To clarify the intended sense of office (“kindness, service”) and to distinguish from antonyms such as ill offices.

Noun

good offices pl (normally plural, singular good office)

1. The beneficial services and acts of a third party, particularly mediation between two parties in a dispute.

Synonyms

• office, kindness, service

Antonyms

• ill offices, evil offices

Translations

good offices

• Dutch: invloed (nl) m, goede diensten (m pl, conciliatory mediation)
• Finnish: apu (fi), avunanto
• French: bon office m (service rendered), bons offices m pl (concilatory mediation)
• Ido: bonfaco (io)
• Korean: 친절 (ko) (chinjeol), 돌봄 (ko) (dolbom)
• Latvian: pakalpojums m

• Portuguese: mediação (pt) f
• Russian: услу́га (ru) f (uslúga), по́мощь (ru) f (pómoščʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: писарница f, управа f

  Roman: pisarnica (sh) f, uprava (sh) f