Definition of office

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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..

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Manductor :: Manductor (n.) A conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music..
Preferment :: Preferment (n.) The act of preferring, or advancing in dignity or office; the state of being advanced; promotion..
Return :: Return (v. t.) To bring or send back to a tribunal, or to an office, with a certificate of what has been done; as, to return a writ..
Appointive :: Appointive (a.) Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office..
Elect :: Elect (v. t.) To select or take for an office; to select by vote; as, to elect a representative, a president, or a governor..
-ate :: -ate () As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate..
Function :: Function (n.) The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance..
Sinecure :: Sinecure (n.) Any office or position which requires or involves little or no responsibility, labor, or active service..
Subdial :: Subdiaconate (n.) The office or rank of a subdeacon.
Capias :: Capias (n.) A writ or process commanding the officer to take the body of the person named in it, that is, to arrest him; -- also called writ of capias..
Removed :: Removed (a.) Dismissed from office.
Requisition :: Requisition (n.) A formal application by one officer to another for things needed in the public service; as, a requisition for clothing, troops, or money..
Regarder :: Regarder (n.) An officer appointed to supervise the forest.
Chaplaincy :: Chaplaincy (n.) The office, position, or station of a chaplain..
Adjutancy :: Adjutancy (n.) The office of an adjutant.
Commissary :: Commissary (n.) One to whom is committed some charge, duty, or office, by a superior power; a commissioner..
Prorectorate :: Prorectorate (n.) The office of prorector.
Bookwork :: Bookwork (n.) Work done upon a book or books (as in a printing office), in distinction from newspaper or job work..
Prefecture :: Prefecture (n.) The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence..
Aleconner :: Aleconner (n.) Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.].
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