office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒf.ɪs/
ipa: /ˈɔ.fɪs/
ipa: /ˈɑ.fɪs/
rhymes: -ɒfɪs
Forms: form: offices
Etymology: From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)).
The computing sense is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.
Senses: examples: text: Golde (gaue he him)[…]for all maner of veſſels of euery offyce[…]
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, I. Cronicles xxix, folio xc, verso, column 2:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A ceremonial duty or service, particularly
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A ceremonial duty or service
The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A ceremonial duty or service
Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A ceremonial duty or service
A daily service without the eucharist.
examples: text: In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily.
text: His spirituall exercises were chiefly Prayer, the H. Sacrifice of Masse, his Canonicall Houres or diuine Office.
ref: 1674, Richard Strange, The Life and Gests of S. Thomas Cantilupe, Bishop of Hereford, page 287:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A ceremonial duty or service
The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
topics: Christianity
Protestantism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A ceremonial duty or service
Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
examples: text: The deuout offices of balming and anointing the dead bodies[…]
ref: 1582, The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ: […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Rheims: Iohn Fogny, →OCLC, Iohn 12, marginalia, page 254:
text: To show their loue in this last office done
To a dead friend.
ref: 1618, S. Rowlands, Sacred Memorie, section 37:
text: I[…]will be first to render thee the decent offices due to the dead.
ref: 1822 May 29, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in The Fortunes of Nigel. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, page 318:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A ceremonial duty or service
Last rites.
examples: text: The office, or Introite, (as they call it).
ref: 1549, “Svpper of the Lorde”, in The Book of Common Prayer, page 121:
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A ceremonial duty or service
Mass, (particularly) the introit sung at its beginning.
examples: text: When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.
text: Do not conflate the officeholder with the office; the distinction sometimes matters.
text: […]in as moche as I am the apoſtle off the gentyls I will magnify myn office[…]
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Romans xj:[13], folio ccxj, verso:
text: I do solemnly swear... that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."
ref: 1787, United States Constitution, Article II, §1
hypernyms: role#Noun
;
rank#Noun
glosses: A position of responsibility.
examples: text: She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office.
text: Fla.[…]Well, would I were / Gently put out of Office, before I were forc'd out[…]
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 82, column 2:
text: The Tories had been in office ten years.
ref: 1923, Rose Macaulay, Told by an Idiot, act III, scene xv, line 227:
hypernyms: role#Noun
;
rank#Noun
glosses: Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
examples: text: Ang.... Doe you your office, or giue vp your Place,
And you shall well be spar'd.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 749:
text: The Sun was ſunk, and after him the Starr / Of Heſperus, whoſe Office is to bring / Twilight upon the Earth[…]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
text: The Antients would certainly have invoked the Goddeſs Flora for this Purpoſe, and it would have been no Difficulty for their Prieſts or Politicians to have perſuaded the People of the real Preſence of the Deity, though a plain Mortal had perſonated her, and performed her Office.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “Containing five Pages of Paper”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 6:
text: A woman[…]might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume I, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 87:
text: […]there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend, the certain evils of such a choice.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume II, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 145:
glosses: A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
examples: text: In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
ref: 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
text: I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud,[…]and the gown which had been let down to hide it, not doing its office.
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter VIII, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 76:
text: These ‘Pacific boom-lateens’... are believed to derive from a kind of sprit-sail... in which the upper sprit performs the office of a more or less aft-raking mast.
ref: 1971, John Needham, chapter III, in Science and Civilisation in China, page 590:
text: The anxious businessman will learn that in most of Southeast Asia,... presenting your business card with your left hand is an affront, every decent Moslem knowing the filthy, smelly offices you reserve that left hand for.
ref: 1988, P. Fussell, Thank God for Atom Bomb, page 134:
glosses: Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
examples: text: The secretary prevailed at the negotiations through the good offices of the Freedonian ambassador.
text: ...which we have hitherto forborne to graunt... for the evell offices whiche her other Secretary did there.
ref: 1575, Elizabeth I, letter
text: Bush. Thither will I with you, for little office
Will the hatefull commons perfourme for vs,
Except like curs to teare vs all to pieces...
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], line 1089:
text: One of the Maxims which the Devil, in a late Viſit upon Earth, left to his Diſciples, is, when once you are got up, to kick the Stool from under you. In plain Engliſh, when you have made your Fortune by the good Offices of a Friend, you are adviſed to diſcard him as ſoon as you can.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “Which concludes the first Book, with an Instance of Ingratitude, which we hope will appear unnatural”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume I, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book I, page 75:
text: I[…]am sure you will be too generous to do us any ill offices.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 263:
text: And the office of thy calling shall be for a comfort unto my servant, Joseph Smith, Jun., thy husband, in his afflictions, with consoling words, in the spirit of meekness.
ref: 1830, Joseph Smith, Doctrine and Covenants, 25:5:
text: […]he got her slippers and took off her boots. It delighted him to perform menial offices.
ref: 1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXX, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 359:
glosses: A service, a kindness.
examples: text: Giving the office—is when you suffer any person, who may stand behind your chair, to look over your hand.
ref: 1803, Sporting Magazine, number 21, page 327:
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Where Silas Linden Comes into His Own”, in The Land of Mist, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, published 1926, →OCLC, [https://archive.org/details/landofmist0000doyl/page/" […] What is there for me in it?" "Not a shilling." "What? Wasn't it I that gave the information? Where would you have been if I had not given you the office?"/mode/1up page " […] What is there for me in it?" "Not a shilling." "What? Wasn't it I that gave the information? Where would you have been if I had not given you the office?"]:
glosses: Inside information.
examples: text: The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant.
text: Now it came to paſſe that at what time the chest was brought vnto the kings office, by the hand of the Leuites[…]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 24:11, column 1:
text: Griffith, having taken offices a few doors off, also carried on the business of a solicitor.
ref: 1885, The Law Times Reports, number 53, page 459:
text: We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 15:
text: An English lawyer, whether barrister or solicitor, never has an office, but always chambers.
ref: [1945, H. L. Mencken, The American Language, supplement 1, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →OCLC, page 503:
text: Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York, and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Revenge of the Nerds”, in The Economist, number 408:
glosses: A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly
examples: text: The “Pall Mall Gazette” had its offices[…]in Catherine Street[…]
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “The Pall Mall Gazette”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 347:
glosses: A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work
A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
examples: text: There will be some of the family waiting for you at the coach-office.
ref: 1819 September 22, John Keats, letter to Reynolds
glosses: A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work
A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
examples: text: This one was made out at a private office—Office is American for Surgery.
ref: 1975, M. Duke, chapter VIII, in Death of Holy Murderer, page 108:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work
A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
examples: text: The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.
glosses: The staff of such places.
examples: text: He's from our public relations office.
glosses: The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly
raw_tags: in large organizations
examples: The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
glosses: The administrative departments housed in such places
A ministry or other department of government.
raw_tags: with clarifying modifier
in large organizations
examples: text: A Biscayner is capable to be a Cavalier of any of the three habits without any scrutiny to be made of the Office, whether he be, limpio de la sangre de los Moros, that is cleare of the bloud of the Moores or no.
ref: 1642, J. Howell, chapter X, in Forraine Travell, page 131:
text: They abiured their Heresy bublikly [sic] before the Commissary of the holy office.
ref: 1658, Pilgrim's Book, page 3:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: The administrative departments housed in such places
Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
raw_tags: in large organizations
examples: text: He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office.
text: But there is an Insuring-Office set up in the Gospel, as to the venture of our eternities.
ref: 1647, W. Bridge, Saints Hiding-place, page 17:
text: Would not an Office of Insurance for Servants be of Service, and what Methods are proper for the erecting such an Office?
ref: 1732, Benjamin Franklin, Proposals & Queries to be Asked the Junto:
text: […]there are advertising offices, and[…]by applying to them I should have no doubt of very soon meeting with something that would do.
ref: 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVII, in Emma: […], volume II, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 324:
text: […]a large Danish sun or star hanging round his neck by a blue ribbon[…]had given him the appearance of being insured in some extraordinary Fire Office.
ref: 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter XII, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 204:
glosses: The administrative departments housed in such places
A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
raw_tags: in large organizations
examples: text: As for the Offices, let them stand at some Distance from the House, with some low covered Galleries, to pass from them to the Palace it self.
ref: 1720, William Willymott translating Francis Bacon as "Of Building" in Lord Bacons Essays, Vol. I, page 283
text: ... proposals for erecting 500 Publick Offices of Ease in London and Westminster...
ref: 1727, The Grand Mystery:
text: A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices.
ref: 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter III, in A Study in Scarlet:
text: Only in planted areas does one find old examples of planned ‘courtyard farms’ where the house and offices enclose a square or rectangular yard.
ref: 1957, Emyr Estyn Evans, chapter VIII, in Irish Folk Ways, page 112:
text: The bathroom's to the right and the usual offices next to it.
ref: 1957, John Braine, chapter I, in Room at Top, page 13:
text: Aft of the lobby... is the dining saloon for the passengers with the offices of necessity on either side of it.
ref: 1980, William Golding, chapter I, in Rites of Passage, page 6:
glosses: The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly (euphemistic, dated) a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories.
examples: text: If they find the treason or felony... of the party accused... the king is thereupon, by virtue of this office found, intitled to have his forfeitures.
ref: 1768, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, volume III, page 259:
text: If the Crown claimed the land of an idiot, the person had first to be found an idiot by office.
ref: 1977, John McDonald Burke, Jowitt's Dictionary of English Law, volume I, page 280:
topics: law
glosses: Clipping of inquest of office
examples: text: All hunt in James Whitendales office.
ref: 1617, Nicholas Assheton, Journal, page 60:
glosses: A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
examples: text: His Office, any Man's ordinary Haunt, or Plying-place, be it Tavern, Ale-house, Gaming-house.
ref: 1699, A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew:
glosses: A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
examples: text: I withdraw into ‘the office’, otherwise the observer's cockpit.
ref: 1917, Alan Bott, An Airman's Outings, page 161:
text: In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.
ref: 1941 March 24, Life, page 85:
text: ‘Up in the office they too knew it.’ ‘The office? You mean the flight deck?’ ‘Just that. No more. No less. The office.’
ref: 1966 May 13, New Statesman, page 687:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
examples: text: […]For who would beare...
The pangs of despiz'd loue, the lawes delay,
The insolence of office...
When he himselfe might his quietas make...
With a bare bodkin?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Ped. Now Mr. Office:
What is the Reason that your vigilant Greatness
And your Wife's wonderful wiseness have lock'd up from me
The way to see my Mistress? Who's Dog's dead now,
That you observe these Vigils?
ref: (Can we date this quote?), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “A Very Woman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene ii:
glosses: An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
examples: text: Cassio.... Whom I, with all the Office of my heart
Intirely honour[…]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:
text: Washing themselves, as they doe also after the offices of Nature.
ref: 1613, Samuel Purchas, Purchas, His Pilgrimage, page 623:
text: I never, since I left England, till now, have regal'd Myself with a good house of Office... the holes in Germany are... too round, chiefly owing... to the broader bottoms of the Germans.
ref: 1764 August 5, David Garrick, letter
text: The very clerks,—those somewhat dirty springs / Of office, or the House of Office[…]
ref: 1823 August 29, [Lord Byron], Don Juan. Cantos IX.—X.—and XI., London: […] [C. H. Reynell] for John Hunt, […], →OCLC, canto XI, stanza XL, page 123:
glosses: A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
examples: text: […]whan the Quene of riche Arabia sawe all the wyſzdome of Salomon[…]⁊ the offyces of his miniſters, and their garmentes[…]ſhe wondred exceadingly[…]
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, III. Kynges [1 Kings] x:[4–5], folio lviij, recto, column 2:
text: At Rome (nor think me partial to the Poor) / All Offices of ours are out of Door[…]
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC, page 41:
glosses: The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
Synonyms: sense: religious ritual
word: service
sense: religious ritual
word: divine service
sense: religious ritual
word: religious service
sense: religious ritual
word: liturgy
sense: Catholic ritual
word: Divine Office
sense: Catholic ritual
word: breviary
sense: Catholic ritual
word: Liturgy of the Hours
sense: Catholic ritual
word: liturgy of the hours
sense: Catholic ritual
word: canonical hours
sense: place of work
word: workplace
sense: place of work
word: workstead
sense: place of work
word: practice
topics: surgery
medicine
sciences
word: doctor's office
sense: major governmental division
word: department
sense: major governmental division
word: ministry
sense: major governmental division
word: bureau
sense: facilities for urination and defecation
word: bathroom
word: office
Hypernyms: word: entity
Hyponyms: sense: site of non-manual work
word: ticket office
sense: site of non-manual work
english: selling tickets
translation: selling tickets
word: box office
sense: site of non-manual work
english: governmental mail services
translation: governmental mail services
word: post office
word: Apostolicship
word: abbotship
word: accountantship
word: adjutancy
word: admiralship
word: admiralty
word: advisership
word: advocateship
word: aedileship
word: ædileship
word: agency
word: agentship
word: aldermancy
word: aldermanship
word: almonership
word: ambassadorship
word: apostolate
word: archbishopric
word: archdeaconry
word: archdeaconship
word: archonship
word: archontate
word: assessorship
word: attorneyship
word: auditorship
word: augurship
word: beadlery
word: beadleship
word: bishopric
word: bursarship
word: butlership
word: canonicate
word: canonry
word: canonship
word: cardinalate
word: cardinalship
word: centumvirate
word: chairmanship
word: chairpersonship
word: chairwomanship
word: chamberlainship
word: chancellery
word: chaplaincy
word: chaplainship
word: chargeship
word: churchwardenship
word: coadjutorship
word: collectorship
word: colonelcy
word: commentatorship
word: commissionership
word: commissionship
word: comptrollership
word: constableship
word: consularity
word: consulate
word: consulship
word: controllership
word: corporalship
word: counselorship
word: curacy
word: custodianship
word: deaconhood
word: decemvirate
word: decurionate
word: directorship
word: dogate
word: elderdom
word: eldership
word: emirate
word: emirship
word: emissaryship
word: emperorship
word: ensigncy
word: envoyship
word: ephoralty
word: episcopate
word: ermine
word: exchequership
word: executorship
word: gaugership
word: generalcy
word: generalship
word: governesshood
word: governess-ship
word: governorship
word: guardianship
word: hangmanship
word: heraldship
word: historiographership
word: imamate
word: imitatorship
word: inspectorate
word: inspectorship
word: instructorship
word: intendancy
word: internuncioship
word: judgeship
word: justiceship
word: justiciary
word: kaiserdom
word: kingship
word: laureateship
word: leadership
word: legateship
word: legation
word: legislatorship
word: magistracy
word: majority
word: majorship
word: managership
word: mastership
word: mayoralty
word: mayory
word: mediatorship
word: ministryship
word: moderatorship
word: observership
word: ombudsmanship
word: operatorship
word: ordinariate
word: overseership
word: papacy
word: pastorage
word: pastorship
word: patriarchate
word: patriarchdom
word: patriarchship
word: patriarchy
word: patroonship
word: penitentiaryship
word: perfectissimate
word: pimpship
word: pontificate
word: popedom
word: postmastership
word: praetorship
word: preachership
word: prebendaryship
word: precentorship
word: prefectship
word: prefecture
word: prelacy
word: prelateship
word: prelature
word: premiership
word: prepositure
word: presbytership
word: presidency
word: presidentship
word: priesthood
word: priesting
word: primacy
word: prime ministership
word: principalship
word: priorate
word: priorship
word: proconsulate
word: proconsulship
word: proctorship
word: procuracy
word: procuratorate
word: professoriate
word: professorship
word: prolocutorship
word: proprætorship
word: prorectorate
word: prosecutorship
word: protectorship
word: prothonotaryship
word: provisorship
word: provostship
word: provosty
word: proxyship
word: pursership
word: quaestorship
word: rabbinate
word: rajahship
word: rangership
word: receivership
word: recordership
word: rectorate
word: rectorship
word: regentship
word: registership
word: registrarship
word: sachemship
word: saviourship
word: secretaryship
word: see
word: seership
word: seneschalship
word: septemvirate
word: sergeancy
word: servitorship
word: sextonry
word: sextonship
word: shepherdship
word: sheriffdom
word: sheriffhood
word: sheriffship
word: stadtholdership
word: stakeholdership
word: stewardship
word: stewartry
word: subadarship
word: subdeaconry
word: subdeaconship
word: subdeanery
word: subdiaconate
word: subedarship
word: suffraganship
word: sultanship
word: supervisorship
word: surgeoncy
word: surrogateship
word: surveyorship
word: teacherage
word: tellership
word: translatorship
word: treasurership
word: tribunate
word: tribuneship
word: trusteeship
word: tutorage
word: umpirage
word: umpireship
word: uncleship
word: undershrievalty
word: usherdom
word: ushership
word: vicarage
word: vicariate
word: vicarship
word: vice-presidency
word: vicegerency
word: viceregency
word: viceroyalty
word: viceroyship
word: vigintivirate
word: vizierate
word: voivodeship
word: wardenry
word: waywodeship
word: writership
word: zamindarship
word: zemindarship
Derived terms: 610 Office
back office
booking office
box office
box-office
box-office bomb
branch office
circumlocution office
cloffice
coach-office
coffice
color of office
corner office
dead letter office
divine office
Divine Office
do a land-office business
doctor's office
drawing office
express office
find an office
fire office
fiscal office
front office
garden office
general office
gingerbread-office
gingerbread office
give the office
good offices
great office of state
Gretzky's office
head office
hoffice
hold office
Holy Office
home office
house of office
ill offices
in office
in-office imaging
inquest of office
insurance office
intelligence office
interoffice
intraoffice
jack-in-office
kind offices
last offices
leave office
left-luggage office
little office
man of office
Met Office
middle office
nonoffice
oath of office
office automation
office badge
office bell
office block
office book
office-bound
office boy
office building
office chair
office cleaner
office clerk
office copy
office desk
office door
office-drawing
office drone
office duty
office-duty
office equipment
office expenses
officefellow
office-fellow
office floor plate
Office for Baptism
Office for the Dead
Office for the Visitation of the Sick
office found
officeful
office furniture
Officegate
office girl
office-giver
office giver
officegoer
office-goer
office-holder
office holder
office holding
office-holding
officeholding
office hours
office-house
office-hunter
office-hunting
office hymn
office job
office jobbing
office junior
office keeper
office-keeper
office lady
office landscape
officeless
officelike
office machine
office manager
officemate
office mate
office-mongering
office mongering
office name
office of ease
office of kindness
office of the mass
Office of the Virgin
office paper
office park
office party
office patient
office pen
office piano
office plankton
office politics
office pool
office routine
officescape
office seeker
officeseeker
office-seeker
office-seeking
officeseeking
office seeking
officeship
office staff
office stool
office suite
officetel
office tower
office up
office wall
office-wall
officeward
officewear
officewide
office wife
office wire
office work
office worker
officey
officiant
officious
of office
OL
out of office
out-of-office
paperless office
patent office
pay office
pipe office
poison at the box office
police office
post office
post-office box
post office box
post-office order
post office order
press office
public office
rat printing office
register office
registry office
return an office
say office
seek office
shoffice
shopoffice
sick office syndrome
sorting office
suboffice
take an office
take office
take the office
tax office
telegraph office
ticket office
tourist office
travelling post office
usual office
victualling-office
Related terms: word: officeholder
word: officer
word: official
word: officiate
word: dignity
word: position
word: rank
word: station
word: status
word: tenure