office
noun
[ ˈɒfɪs ]
• a room, set of rooms, or building used as a place for commercial, professional, or bureaucratic work.
• "an office job"
• a position of authority or service, typically one of a public nature.
• "the office of chief constable"
Similar:
post,
position,
appointment,
job,
day job,
occupation,
role,
place,
situation,
station,
function,
capacity,
• a service done for another or others.
• "rescued through the good offices of the Italian Ambassador, he was returned safely to England"
Similar:
assistance,
help,
aid,
services,
intervention,
intercession,
mediation,
intermediation,
agency,
support,
backing,
patronage,
aegis,
auspices,
advocacy,
• 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.
Origin:
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’.
