office

  1. Noun.  A building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed.
  2. Noun.  A bureau, an administrative unit of government.
  3. Noun.  A position of responsibility of some authority within an organisation.
  4. Noun.  rite, ceremonial observance of social or religious nature.
  5. Noun.  religious service, especially a liturgy officiated by a Christian priest or minister.
  6. Noun.  major administrative division, notably in certain governmental administrations, either at ministry level (e.g. the British Home Office) or within or dependent on such a department.
  7. Noun.  (obsolete) a task that one feels obliged to do.
  8. Noun.  (qualifier, in plural) The parts of a house given over to household work, storage etc.

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