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  1. noun A place in which business, clerical, or professional activities are conducted.
  2. noun The administrative personnel, executives, or staff working in such a place.
  3. noun A duty or function assigned to or assumed by someone. See Synonyms at function.
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  • What was known as the office was a tiny room, badly lit and with no ventilation at all, where there were a cot and a table with a portable stove and the remains of a meal. —  Maigret’s Dead Man - Georges Simenon - 56: 1948
  • Athens County Sheriff Patrick Kelly said he has not authorized any solicitation for vests and that before anyone gives money to the sheriff's office, they should make sure the office is actually collecting money. —  News for NBC4i.com
  • Although my office is a mixed retail / office / residential building, and the neighborhood isn't that dense, we have some problem on channel 1 in 2.4 GHz that renders networks in that range completely unusable, regardless of vendor. —  Wi-Fi Networking News
  • Her sole qualification for the office is her last name. —  South Dakota Politics
  • U.S. Marshals from the St. George, Utah, office, and the Nevada office were assisted by detectives from the Iron County Utah Sheriff's Office in apprehending Rivera.
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service ·  house ·  duty ·  station ·  authority ·  officer ·  school ·  department ·  court ·  family ·  job

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office:   offices
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, duty, from Latin officium; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English office, offyce, from Old French office, offyz, French office = Spanish ofício = Portuguese officio = Italian offizio, uffizio, ufizio, uficio, from Latin officium, a service, an obligatory service, duty, official duty, office, court, etc., prob. contr. from opificium, the doing of a work, a working, from opifex, one who does a work, from opus, work, + facere, do: see opus and fact. Cf. officinal.
  2. from Old French officier, French officier = Spanish oficiar = Portuguese officiar = Italian officiare, uffiziare, from Middle Latin officiare, perform an office, from Latin officium, office: see office, n. Cf. officiate.
 

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