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Definition office

Etymology

From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y: forming actions”), from op- (“base of opus: work”) + -i- (“connective”) + -fex (“combining form of facere: to do, to make”).

Use in reference to office software is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.

Noun

office (plural offices)

1. (religion) A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
   1. (Christianity) The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
   2. (Christianity, obsolete) Mass, (particularly) the introit sung at its beginning.
   3. (Christianity) Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
   4. (Christianity) A daily service without the eucharist.
   5. (Catholicism) The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
   6. (Protestant) Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
   7. (Christianity) Last rites.
2. A position of responsibility.
3. Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
4. (obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
5. A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
6. (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
7. (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
8. (obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
9. (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
10. (figuratively, slang) Inside information.
11. A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
    1. A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
    2. A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
    3. (chiefly US, medicine) A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
12. (figuratively) The staff of such places.
13. (figuratively, in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
    1. (Britain, Australia, usually capitalized, with clarifying modifier) A ministry or other department of government.
    2. (Catholicism, usually capitalized) Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
    3. A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
14. (now in the plural, dated) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly (euphemistic, dated) a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories.
15. (Britain law, historical) Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.
16. (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
17. (figuratively, slang, obsolete) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
18. (Britain military slang, dated) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
19. (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.

Verb

office (third-person singular simple present offices, present participle officing, simple past and past participle officed)

1. To provide (someone) with an office.
2. (intransitive) To have an office.

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