Definition of office

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Office (n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office..

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Root :: Root (n.) The descending, and commonly branching, axis of a plant, increasing in length by growth at its extremity only, not divided into joints, leafless and without buds, and having for its offices to fix the plant in the earth, to supply it with moisture and soluble matters, and sometimes to serve as a reservoir of nutriment for future growth. A true root, however, may never reach the ground, but may be attached to a wall, etc., as in the ivy, or may hang loosely in the air, as in some epiphy
Bookwork :: Bookwork (n.) Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work..
Archontate :: Archontate (n.) An archon's term of office.
Brigadier General :: Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier..
Advance :: Advance (v.) Improvement or progression, physically, mentally, morally, or socially; as, an advance in health, knowledge, or religion; an advance in rank or office..
Pontificate :: Pontificate (n.) The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope..
Menial :: Menial (n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices..
Controller :: Controller (n.) An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts..
Functionary :: Functionary (n.) One charged with the performance of a function or office; as, a public functionary; secular functionaries..
Butler :: Butler (n.) An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house..
Tidesman :: Tidesman (n.) A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.
Mandarin :: Mandarin (n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
Archchamberlain :: Archchamberlain (n.) A chief chamberlain; -- an officer of the old German empire, whose office was similar to that of the great chamberlain in England..
Comitia :: Comitia (n. pl.) A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws.
Penitentiaryship :: Penitentiaryship (n.) The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court.
Streetward :: Streetward (n.) An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets..
Office :: Office (n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office..
Tithingman :: Tithingman (n.) A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath..
Rectorship :: Rectorship (n.) The office or rank of a rector; rectorate.
Countourhouse :: Countourhouse (n.) A merchant's office; a countinghouse.
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