Word Finder - office

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A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:

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A position of responsibility.

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When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.

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Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.

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She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office.

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An official or group of officials; a personification of officeholders.

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A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; moral duty.

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The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.

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Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.

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A bodily function, urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.

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(now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.

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Inside information.

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A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:

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The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant.

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The staff of such places.

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The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.

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(in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:

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He's from our public relations office.

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(now in the plural) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories.

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Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.

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A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.

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A hangout: a place where one is normally found.

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A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.

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A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.

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To provide (someone) with an office.

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To have an office.

I've repaired the computers in your office, too.

All my mail goes to a post office box.

From the window of his office, the path was clearly visible.

Alex decided to build a room upstairs for his office, out of the reach of Destiny's exploring hands.

Her father looks in at us morning and evening as he goes to and from his office, and sees her contentedly stringing her beads or making horizontal lines on her sewing-card, and exclaims, "How quiet she is!"

Alpatych went to the shops, to government offices, to the post office, and to the Governor's.

She peeked around the door again just in time to see him walk into the office and close the door.

The return address was the Doctor's office in Chicago.

We moved to Howie's office where she spread out the charts and papers.

Well, he has a home office and he goes there pretty often, but I can't figure out what he's doing.

She left the post office feeling better about Russell Cade than she did about herself.

By the time Eisenhower left office, this had changed, and a dedicated military industry existed.

With every step up to the office where Señor Medena waited, he dreaded the conversation.

Darting down the stairs, she ran to the stage office, arriving as the driver was preparing to climb into the seat.

When picking up her mail at the post office, she often talked to Adrena.

I am in no hurry to resign my office and be planted, you may be sure.

When he reached Kiev he sent for all his stewards to the head office and explained to them his intentions and wishes.

The case, as represented by the offended parties, was that, after seizing the transports, Major Denisov, being drunk, went to the chief quartermaster and without any provocation called him a thief, threatened to strike him, and on being led out had rushed into the office and given two officials a thrashing, and dislocated the arm of one of them.

Since his current office was directly across from their bedroom, it seemed a better place for babies that Alex said could be born early.

As she passed his office, she glanced through the open door.

If I hadn't been summoned to Detective Jackson's office, I would have gone there anyway.

During his campaign and his time in office, the extent of the effect of his polio was kept from the public, but the fact he had the disease was commonly known.

When medical records leave the paper folders of the doctor's office and become highly standardized, more analysis can be done.

He works from home and has a night job remotely monitoring real-time security cameras after hours at an office building.

The system had an office, Overseer of the Poor, in each of 1,500 parishes.

In the offices and shops and at the post office everyone was talking about the army and about the enemy who was already attacking the town, everybody was asking what should be done, and all were trying to calm one another.

Is it for my own pleasure that I am at the farm or in the office from morning to night?

They moved Alex's office upstairs and began work on the nursery.

Señor Medena asked Carmen and Alex to come to his office with him.

She walked hesitantly to his office.

The post office might know something.

This isn't an office.

He was like from the head shed— the home office.

Cynthia ushered the group down the hall to their office, out of earshot and out of sight.

Looking around, she spotted his office and went in, uninvited.

Dean knew Fred O'Connor was scheduled for release and that necessitated a dreaded trip to the sheriff's office.

He filled a thermos of coffee—no one could drink Weller's brew—and wasted no time in arriving at the sheriff's office.

Beat Fitzgerald in the election and then start your term of office chasing down some ancient murder if you want.

Most of the lodgers were about their daily activities, with Fred off to the post office, Maria doing her duties with her usual exuberance, and the Deans hovering close by.

I took the key from the office and made a copy.

He stood and headed for the door, shutting off the light as he left his home office.

Catching him up on things at the office had been simple enough, as someone was there to visit him several times a week.

Alex was finishing supper with his family when the telephone rang in his office.

He strode to his office and picked up the telephone receiver of the land line.

Alex glanced out the office door cautiously.

She pulled up Dr. Wynn's office number on her cell, tempted to invite him to the beach this weekend instead of Logan.

Dr. Wynn stood in the middle of his office.

With a deep breath, Wynn turned away and retreated to his office.

There was no computer, no office supplies on the other side.

The black lady's tone left no imagination to what she thought of the latest deadbeat mom in her office.