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UK
/ˈɒfɪs/
]
[ US /ˈɔfɪs/ ]
[ US /ˈɔfɪs/ ]
NOUN
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professional or clerical workers in an office
the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard -
a job in an organization
he occupied a post in the treasury -
a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
the offices of the mass -
the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
play its role
the government must do its part
the function of a teacher -
(of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
during his first year in power
the power of the president
during his first year in office
being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage -
an administrative unit of government
the Census Bureau
the Central Intelligence Agency
Tennessee Valley Authority
Office of Management and Budget -
place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
he rented an office in the new building
How To Use office In A Sentence
- Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified. War-Time Financial Problems
- Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
- Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
- Could be that, or maybe she's a little wigged out working in an office full of blabbermouths.
- The coulpe or peccavi, is made for a very small matter — a broken glass, a torn veil, an involuntary delay of a few seconds at an office, a false note in church, etc.; this suffices, and the coulpe is made. Les Miserables
- McCarthy remains dismissive of the allegations and defensive of the former sergeant, saying he was "brutalized" by his colleagues, in particular, by a few senior officers "exerting locker room peer pressure" in the department ranks. MPNnow Home RSS
- The officer was then subjected to a torrent of racial abuse. Times, Sunday Times
- Obama "cherishes" a trinket and a book given to him by Gordon Brown, and he worships them like tiny gods by keeping them in a little pagan altar he set up in the Oval Office. Wonkette » top
- He says the briefcase is impractical: A lot of other people in our office use rucksacks because they cycle to work. Briefcases are the new suspenders | clusterflock
- Labour is naturally a bit shell-shocked finding itself out of office for the first time in 13 years. Times, Sunday Times