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1. Place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
   "he rented an office in the new building";
   - business office
    
2. An administrative unit of government
   "Office of Management and Budget";
   - agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, authority
    
3. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
   "the office of a teacher";
   - function, part, role
    
4. (of a government or government official) the status of currently holding an official or elected position and having the corresponding authority
   "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office";
   - power
    
5. Professional or clerical workers in an office
   "the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard";
   - office staff
    
6. A religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
   "the offices of the mass"
    
7. A job in an organization
   - position, post, berth, place, situation

Derived forms: offices

Type of: administrative body, administrative unit, business, business establishment, duty, job, line, line of work, occupation, place of business, religious rite, rite, staff, state

Part of: office block, office building

Encyclopedia: Office, Chief of the Air Corps