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[ˈɒfɪs], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a room, set of rooms, or building used as a place for commercial, professional, or bureaucratic work
(e.g: an office job)
- a position of authority or service, typically one of a public nature
(e.g: the office of chief constable)
- a service done for another or others
(e.g: rescued through the good offices of the Italian Ambassador, he was returned safely to England)
- the series of services of prayers and psalms said (or chanted) daily by Catholic priests, members of religious orders, and other clergy
- the parts of a house given over to household work or to storage
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Origin
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Middle English: via Old French from Latin officium ‘performance of a task’ (in medieval Latin also ‘office, divine service’), based on opus ‘work’ + facere ‘do’
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