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The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.
Joshua Ferris

Meaning of "office" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD OFFICE

Via Old French from Latin officium service, duty, from opus work, service + facere to do.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF OFFICE

office  [ˈɒfɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF OFFICE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Office is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES OFFICE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

office

Office

An office is generally a room or other area where administrative work is done, but may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it; the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty. When used as an adjective, the term "office" may refer to business-related tasks. In legal writing, a company or organization has offices in any place that it has an official presence, even if that presence consists of, for example, a storage silo rather than an office. An office is an architectural and design phenomenon; whether it is a small office such as a bench in the corner of a small business of extremely small size, through entire floors of buildings, up to and including massive buildings dedicated entirely to one company. In modern terms an office usually refers to the location where white-collar workers are employed.

Definition of office in the English dictionary

The first definition of office in the dictionary is a room or set of rooms in which business, professional duties, clerical work, etc, are carried out. Other definition of office is the building or buildings in which the work of an organization, such as a business or government department, is carried out. Office is also a commercial or professional business.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH OFFICE


air-to-surface
ˈɛətəˌsɜːfɪs
artifice
ˈɑːtɪfɪs
back-office
ˈbækˌɒfɪs
edifice
ˈɛdɪfɪs
interoffice
ˌɪntərˈɒfɪs
Memphis
ˈmɛmfɪs
orifice
ˈɒrɪfɪs
preface
ˈprɛfɪs
surface
ˈsɜːfɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE OFFICE

office automation
office bearer
office block
office boy
office hours
office job
office junior
office manager
Office of Fair Trading
Office of Management and Budget
office party
office politics
office space
office work
office worker
officeholder
officer
officer of arms
officer of the day

WORDS THAT END LIKE OFFICE

back office
box office
branch office
front office
head office
head post office
Home Office
in office
main office
out of office
Oval Office
Patent Office
post office
press office
public prosecutor´s office
registered office
sacrifice
suffice
the office
the Oval Office
the Stationery Office

Synonyms and antonyms of office in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «OFFICE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «office» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of office

Translation of «office» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF OFFICE

Find out the translation of office to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of office from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «office» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

办公室
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

oficina
570 millions of speakers

English

office
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

कार्यालय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَكْتَبٌ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

офис
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

escritório
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দপ্তর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

bureau
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Pejabat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Büro
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

オフィス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

사무실
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kantor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

văn phòng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அலுவலகம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कार्यालय
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ofis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ufficio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

biuro
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

офіс
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

birou
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

γραφείο
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kantoor
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kontor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kontor
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of office

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «OFFICE»

The term «office» is very widely used and occupies the 774 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «OFFICE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «office» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «office» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about office

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10 QUOTES WITH «OFFICE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word office.
1
Richard V. Allen
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.
2
Rick Atkinson
I was with the 101st Airborne Division in Iraq, really in the middle of nowhere, about 80 miles south of Baghdad. And it was almost midnight, and I got a computer message from the home office of the Washington Post asking me to call them. I did call them and was told that I'd won the Pulitzer Prize.
3
Roy Barnes
After all, I have spent the better part of my adult life insisting that government be open... that government be accessible... and that government be held accountable to people who voted us into office.
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Carol Moseley Braun
The reason that minorities and women don't have a better shot at getting elected to the Senate or to statewide office is because the campaign finance rules are so skewed as to make it very difficult for non-traditional candidates to raise the money necessary to get elected.
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James L. Buckley
In the last analysis, of course, an oath will encourage fidelity in office only to the degree that officeholders continue to believe that they cannot escape ultimate accountability for a breach of faith.
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Julia Child
I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.
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Grover Cleveland
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
8
Trick Daddy
If I was in office, I'd get together all the chiefs and all the heads and chiefs of staffs of all the countries and explain to them like, 'This is how it's going to be. We need y'all oil and water. Y'all need our money and technology. Now, what y'all gon' do?'
9
Barry Eisler
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
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Joshua Ferris
The office is a romantic enabler because you're always around the person you have a crush on. There's no escape from, and maybe no desire to escape from, those pressure-cooker conditions. And there's an automatic series of things you have to talk about all the time.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OFFICE»

Discover the use of office in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to office and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Family Office Book: Investing Capital for the Ultra-Affluent
A must-read." —Charles B. Grace Jr., Director, Threshold Group; founder, Ashbridge Investment Management; and grandson of the former president of Bethlehem Steel Company "Anyone who wants to be in the family office space needs to read ...
Richard C. Wilson, 2012
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The Family Office Book: Investing Capital for the Ultra-Affluent
A must-read." —Charles B. Grace Jr., Director, Threshold Group; founder, Ashbridge Investment Management; and grandson of the former president of Bethlehem Steel Company "Anyone who wants to be in the family office space needs to read ...
Richard C. Wilson, 2012
3
Administrative Office Management, Complete Course
The text provides a strong management-based background while utilizing a humanistic approach for managing and supervising staff in an office environment.
Pattie Gibson, 2004
4
Front Office
Designed for all students of hospitality and tourism management, the second edition of this best selling text gives a modern approach to front office operations and management using realistic scenarios set in the hotel environment Key ...
P. Abbott, S. Lewry, 2010
5
Using Computers in the Law Office
USING COMPUTERS IN THE LAW OFFICE, 6th Edition is the ideal book to provide readers with comprehensive, up-to-date information on the use of technology by paralegals in all types of legal organizations.
Matthew Cornick, 2011
6
Office 2007 For Dummies
A lot, and this book takes you through all the cool changes and enhancements so you can rev up and go.
Wallace Wang, 2011
7
5S for the Office: Organizing the Workplace to Eliminate Waste
In this work, the authors bring the concepts of the 5S System and offer a blueprint for building a Lean foundation for an office setting.
Thomas Fabrizio, Don Tapping, 2006
8
Dental Office Management
This comprehensive book takes readers through the various tasks associated with front office dental procedures, preparing them for the office of the 21st century.
Ellen Roberta Dietz, 1999
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Practical Law Office Management
This is a practical, hands-on text designed for paralegal courses that cover day-to-day law office management topics.
Brent Roper, 2006
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Office Kaizen: Transforming Office Operations Into a ...
Office Kaizen: Transforming Office Operations Into a Strategic Competitive Advantage presents a unified, consistent approach that enables businesses to establish a strategic competitive advantage by significantly improving the efficiency, ...
William Lareau, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OFFICE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term office is used in the context of the following news items.
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On Weekend Box Office, Gun Violence In Movie Theaters And …
This report is usually about dollars and cents as we head into the weekend box office with studios opening several new films as others try to ... «Deadline, Jul 15»
2
Box Office: 'Ant-Man' Holds Early Lead Over Adam Sandler, 'Pixels'
Sony, which has had a tough year so far with “Aloha” and “Chappie,” has had only one release hit $100 million domestically at the box office ... «Variety, Jul 15»
3
Could this be the end of the freezing cold summer office? App lets …
On the hottest day of the year, office workers up and down the country are wrapping themselves up in fleeces and scarves. That's because ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
4
UN rights office renews concern after Cambodian Senate adopts law …
Ravina Shamsadani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High ... carry out in the country, the United Nations human rights office has warned. «UN News Centre, Jul 15»
5
Dolby, IMAX Announce Expansions As Global Box Office Grows
You've probably heard about how awful the summer box office was in ... that last year's box office was actually up by 1% over the previous year. «Forbes, Jul 15»
6
Stephen Colbert Gets Dragged From Office in Final 'Lunch With …
Colbert is dragged out of the office while raising concerns that the prison doesn't "know his sleep number." Even while in the process of being ... «RollingStone.com, Jul 15»
7
US Marshals seized documents from an Arizona sheriff's office in a …
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday ordered U.S. marshals to seize documents from the office of controversial Arizona lawman Joe ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
8
Air conditioning in your office is sexist. True story
There must be thousands – dare I say millions – of women out there having these exact AC office wars. I asked women on Twitter how they felt ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
9
Foreign Office to face inquiry into role played by UK in Libya's collapse
The Foreign Office is to face questions over Libya's descent into a ... the scale of resources inside the Foreign Office to have that capability.”. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
10
Studios Mull Box Office Impact of Lafayette Shooting
Hollywood studios will be keeping a close eye on how the tragic shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana, will affect the domestic box office this ... «TheWrap, Jul 15»

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