Definition of office

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Office (n.) That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings..

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Countersign :: Countersign (a.) The signature of a secretary or other officer to a writing signed by a principal or superior, to attest its authenticity..
Umpirage :: Umpirage (n.) The office of an umpire; the power, right, or authority of an umpire to decide..
Assizer :: Assizer (n.) An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc..
Predecessor :: Predecessor (n.) One who precedes; one who has preceded another in any state, position, office, etc.; one whom another follows or comes after, in any office or position..
Town-crier :: Town-crier (n.) A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.
Adjutancy :: Adjutancy (n.) The office of an adjutant.
Prepositure :: Prepositure (n.) The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship.
Tenement :: Tenement (n.) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements..
Leet :: Leet (n.) A portion; a list, esp. a list of candidates for an office..
Feodary :: Feodary (n.) An ancient officer of the court of wards.
Chaplainship :: Chaplainship (n.) The office or business of a chaplain.
Accede :: Accede (v. i.) To enter upon an office or dignity; to attain.
Pentecoster :: Pentecoster (n.) An officer in the Spartan army commanding fifty men.
Heraldry :: Heraldry (n.) The art or office of a herald; the art, practice, or science of recording genealogies, and blazoning arms or ensigns armorial; also, of marshaling cavalcades, processions, and public ceremonies..
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
Supernumerary :: Supernumerary (a.) Exceeding the number stated or prescribed; as, a supernumerary officer in a regiment..
Disclaim :: Disclaim (v. t.) To relinquish or deny having a claim; to disavow another's claim; to decline accepting, as an estate, interest, or office..
Nominee :: Nominee (n.) A person named, or designated, by another, to any office, duty, or position; one nominated, or proposed, by others for office or for election to office..
Tooth :: Tooth (n.) Any projection corresponding to the tooth of an animal, in shape, position, or office; as, the teeth, or cogs, of a cogwheel; a tooth, prong, or tine, of a fork; a tooth, or the teeth, of a rake, a saw, a file, a card..
Ensign :: Ensign (n.) Sign; badge of office, rank, or power; symbol..
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