office

Etymology
From, from , from , contracted from , from + , from  +  +.

Use in reference to office software is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as.

Noun

 * 1)  A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:
 * 2)  The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
 * 3)  Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
 * 4)  A daily service without the eucharist.
 * 5)  The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons.
 * In the Latin rite, all bishops, priests, and transitional deacons are obliged to recite the Divine Office daily.
 * 1)  Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
 * 2)  Last rites.
 * 3)  Mass,  the introit sung at its beginning.
 * 4) A position of responsibility.
 * When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.
 * 1) * 1787, United States Constitution, Article II, §1:
 * 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."
 * 1) Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
 * She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office.
 * 1) A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role;  moral duty.
 * 2)  Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
 * 3)  A service, a kindness.
 * 4) * 1575, Elizabeth I, letter:
 * ...which we have hitherto forborne to graunt... for the evell offices whiche her other Secretary did there.
 * 1)  Inside information.
 * 2) A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
 * The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant.
 * 1) A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
 * 2) A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
 * 3) * 1819 September 22, John Keats, letter to Reynolds:
 * There will be some of the family waiting for you at the coach-office.
 * 1)  A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
 * 2)  The staff of such places.
 * The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.
 * 1)  The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
 * He's from our public relations office.
 * 1)  A ministry or other department of government.
 * The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
 * 1)  Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
 * 2) A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
 * He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 1720, William Willymott translating Francis Bacon as "Of Building" in Lord Bacons Essays, Vol. I, page 283:
 * As for the office, let them stand at some Distance from the House, with some low covered Galleries, to pass from them to the Palace it self.
 * : an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.
 * 1)  A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
 * 2)  A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
 * 3)  A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
 * 4)  A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
 * 5)  An official or group of officials;  a personification of officeholders.
 * 6)  A bodily function,  urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
 * 7) * 1764 August 5, David Garrick, letter:
 * 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.
 * 1)  The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
 * 1) A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
 * 2) A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
 * 3) * 1819 September 22, John Keats, letter to Reynolds:
 * There will be some of the family waiting for you at the coach-office.
 * 1)  A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
 * 2)  The staff of such places.
 * The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.
 * 1)  The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
 * He's from our public relations office.
 * 1)  A ministry or other department of government.
 * The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
 * 1)  Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
 * 2) A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
 * He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 1720, William Willymott translating Francis Bacon as "Of Building" in Lord Bacons Essays, Vol. I, page 283:
 * As for the office, let them stand at some Distance from the House, with some low covered Galleries, to pass from them to the Palace it self.
 * : an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.
 * 1)  A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
 * 2)  A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
 * 3)  A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
 * 4)  A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
 * 5)  An official or group of officials;  a personification of officeholders.
 * 6)  A bodily function,  urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
 * 7) * 1764 August 5, David Garrick, letter:
 * 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.
 * 1)  The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
 * 1) * 1720, William Willymott translating Francis Bacon as "Of Building" in Lord Bacons Essays, Vol. I, page 283:
 * As for the office, let them stand at some Distance from the House, with some low covered Galleries, to pass from them to the Palace it self.
 * : an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.
 * 1)  A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
 * 2)  A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
 * 3)  A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
 * 4)  A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
 * 5)  An official or group of officials;  a personification of officeholders.
 * 6)  A bodily function,  urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
 * 7) * 1764 August 5, David Garrick, letter:
 * 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.
 * 1)  The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
 * 1)  A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
 * 2)  A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
 * 3)  A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
 * 4)  An official or group of officials;  a personification of officeholders.
 * 5)  A bodily function,  urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
 * 6) * 1764 August 5, David Garrick, letter:
 * 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.
 * 1)  The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
 * 1)  A bodily function,  urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
 * 2) * 1764 August 5, David Garrick, letter:
 * 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.
 * 1)  The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
 * 1) * 1764 August 5, David Garrick, letter:
 * 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.
 * 1)  The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
 * 1)  The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
 * 1)  The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.

Usage notes
In reference to professional services, the term is used with somewhat greater scope in American English, which speaks of  etc., where British English generally prefers particular words such as.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:office
 * See Thesaurus:bathroom
 * See Thesaurus:office
 * See Thesaurus:bathroom
 * See Thesaurus:bathroom
 * See Thesaurus:bathroom
 * See Thesaurus:bathroom

Hyponyms

 * See Thesaurus:office

Translations

 * Bulgarian:, обря́д
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἱερουργία
 * Italian:, uffizio
 * Korean:, ,
 * Latvian: dievkalpojums, ceremonija
 * Middle English: office
 * Plautdietsch: Deenst
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: opisyo


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: مَهَمَّة
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: паса́да, пост, пазі́цыя
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Irish: feidhmeannas
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean:, ,
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:, postenis
 * Middle English: office
 * Plautdietsch: Aumt
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: dreuchd, oifis
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: поса́да, пост,
 * Urdu: پَد


 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: ,
 * Egyptian Arabic: مكتب
 * Armenian:, , ,
 * Azerbaijani:, , dəftərxana
 * Baluchi: دپتر
 * Basque: bulego
 * Belarusian: о́фіс, канто́ра, бюро́, канцэля́рыя, канцыля́рыя
 * Belizean Creole: aafis
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian:, , ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Central Dusun: upis
 * Central Melanau: kubuk
 * Chichewa: ofesi
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 寫字樓, 辦公室, 事務所
 * Hokkien: ,
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Cornish: sodhva
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Elfdalian: kanntor
 * Esperanto: oficejo, administrejo
 * Estonian: kontor, büroo, kabinet
 * Faroese: skrivstova
 * Finnish:, , , , toimipaikka
 * French: ,
 * Fula:
 * Adlam: 𞤴𞤭𞥅𞤤𞤭𞤪𞤣𞤫
 * Latin: yiilirde
 * Georgian: ოფისი, ბიურო
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic: allaffik, allaffeqarfik
 * Gujarati: કાર્યાલય
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: दफ़तर, ऑफ़िस,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: oifig
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 執務室,
 * Kannada:
 * Kazakh: кеңсе, офис, бюро
 * Khmer: ទីចាត់ការ, ,
 * Korean:, , 오피스
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: دایرە
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz: кеңсе,, контора,
 * Ladin: ufize
 * Lao:, ສຳນັກ
 * Latvian: kantoris, birojs, ofiss
 * Lithuanian: kontora,
 * Livonian: kantor
 * Luxembourgish: Büro
 * Macedonian: канцеларија, биро́
 * Malay:, opis
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: uffiċċju
 * Maori: tari
 * Marathi:, ऑफिस
 * Middle English: office
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: оффис,, ,
 * Ngazidja Comorian: biro
 * Northern Sami: kantuvra
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, byrå
 * Nynorsk: kontor, byrå
 * Oromo: waajjira
 * Pashto: ,
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, , آفیس
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Romansch: biro
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: oifis
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: канцела̀рија, посло́вница, пѝса̄рница, у́ред, бѝро̄
 * Roman:, , , ,
 * Slovak: kancelária
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Upper Sorbian: běrow
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Sranan Tongo: kantoro
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: tanggapan, opisina
 * Tajik:, ,
 * Tamil:, கந்தோர்
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:, , ,
 * Tibetan: ལས་ཁུངས
 * Tok Pisin:
 * Turkish:, , ,
 * Turkmen: kontor, ofis,
 * Ukrainian:, конто́ра, , канцеля́рія
 * Urdu: دَفْتَر,
 * Uyghur: ئىدارە, ئىشخانا
 * Uzbek:, , , , ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * Yiddish: ביוראָ, אָפֿיס


 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Basque: bulego
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Faroese: skrivstova
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Irish: oifig
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:, , ,
 * Latvian: ministrija, pārvalde
 * Macedonian: управа, дирекција, уред
 * Maori: tari
 * Middle English: office
 * Mòcheno: omt
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Aumt
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: oifis
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: у́ред, бѝро̄, у̏права, управитѐљство
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Slovene: urad
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: tanggapan
 * Tajik:
 * Urdu: اِدارَہ

Verb

 * 1) To provide (someone) with an office.
 * 2)  To have an office.
 * 1)  To have an office.
 * 1)  To have an office.

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) charge, task, mandate
 * 2) administrative bureau, department
 * 3) religious service, notably liturgical office
 * 4) place where a household's table (food and drink)-related services are conducted, especially by domestic staff

Etymology 1
From, from , contracted form of.

Noun

 * 1) The state of being employed or having a work or job; employment:
 * 2) Ecclesiastical or religious work; a church career.
 * 3)  Unskilled work; any work that is unimportant or base.
 * 4) A position of responsibility or control; a crucial occupation:
 * 5) * c. 1300, St. Thomas Becket, ll. 244 ff.
 * "enm"

- Þis holi Man was i-torned... To a gret office of þe world.


 * 1) A clerical or church post or position; an religious.
 * 2) A governmental or administrative position or post; a political.
 * 3) * c. 1300, St. Thomas Becket, ll. 223 ff.
 * "enm"

- He cam to court and was in guod offiz With þe erchebischop of Kaunterburi.


 * 1) The situation, status, or rank one has in the wider world or within society.
 * 2) A task, chore or assignment, especially one which is  important or required; an obligation:
 * 3) The role, purpose, or intended use or utility of something (especially a bodily part).
 * 4) * c. 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Book VII, ll. 467 ff.:
 * "enm"
 * 1) * c. 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, Book VII, ll. 467 ff.:
 * "enm"

- As it is in Phisique write Of livere, of lunge, of galle, of splen, Thei alle unto the herte ben Servantz, and ech in his office Entendeth to don him service.


 * 1) * c. 1395, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Tale of the Wyf of Bathe" in Tales of Caunterbury, ll. 127 ff.:
 * "enm"

- Membres of generacioun... maked been for bothe; That is to seye, for office and for ese Of engendrure.


 * 1) A task or function that one organ does to assist another or the body as a whole.
 * 2) A religious ceremony or ritual; a task performed for religious reasons.
 * , Arthour & Merlin, ll. 2758 ff.:
 * "enm"
 * "enm"

- Þe holy bischop... For him dede þe office; In erþe he was sikerliche Layd swiþe nobeliche.


 * 1)  The beginning or the initial portion of the Eucharist.
 * 2) * c. 1300, St. Thomas Becket, ll. 942 ff.:
 * "enm"

- He song þulke masse ilome, for al-so heo bi-ginnez Þe furste offiz is propre inov to þe stat þat he was Inne.


 * 1) A core human faculty e.g. movement, talking, literacy
 * 2) A part, faculty, or division of a larger body:
 * 3) A part of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage.
 * , petition, P.R.O. 117, 5842:
 * "enm"

- ... Abbeyes, Priories, hospitals, chaunteries and chappels, chaces, parkes, offices, milnes, weres...


 * 1) A part or subdivision of an estate devoted to a specified function.
 * 2)  A part or subdivision of a government devoted to a specified function.
 * 3) * 1435, petition, P.R.O. 130, 6460A:
 * "enm"

- John Duc of Bedford... Admirall of England in the office of þe admiralte in the Countees of Kent, Sussex...


 * 1) An inquest undertaken to investigate the possession of land or property.
 * 2) * 1432, petition, P.R.O. 26, 1259:
 * "enm"

- Of the whiche Maner the seyd Oratrice... be an Offyce was put out.


 * 1) The intended or ideal working or operation of something.
 * 2) An officeholder invested with powers and authority.
 * 3)  A building or structure used for business purposes; an office.
 * 4)  The process or undertaking of a task or assignment.
 * 5) * c. 1300, The Romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun, ll. 3555 ff.:
 * "enm"
 * 1)  The process or undertaking of a task or assignment.
 * 2) * c. 1300, The Romance of Sir Beues of Hamtoun, ll. 3555 ff.:
 * "enm"

- While Beues was in þat office, Þe kinges sone... A ȝede to Beves stable.


 * 1)  The activities typical of and concomitant to one's place in society.
 * 2)  A favour; a beneficial deed or act.

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1)  building; room
 * 2)  position, role, job
 * 3) service