1.  office(n = noun.artifact) business office - place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed; "he rented an office in the new building"
is a kind of business establishment, place of business
is a part of office block, office building
has particulars: box office, ticket booth, ticket office, countinghouse, government office, central office, headquarters, home base, home office, main office, life office, loan office, newsroom, shipping office

2.  office(n = noun.group) agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency - an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
is a kind of administrative body, administrative unit
has particulars: executive agency, fda, food and drug administration, cdc, center for disease control and prevention, counterterrorist center, ctc, nonproliferation center, npc, bureau of the census, census bureau, national oceanic and atmospheric administration, noaa, national climatic data center, ncdc, national weather service, technology administration, national institute of standards and technology, nist, national technical information service, ntis, darpa, defense advanced research projects agency, department of defense laboratory system, lablink, department of energy intelligence, doei, phs, united states public health service, national institutes of health, nih, bja, bureau of justice assistance, bjs, bureau of justice statistics, immigration and naturalization service, ins, united states border patrol, us border patrol, bureau of diplomatic security, ds, foreign service, bureau of intelligence and research, inr, fws, united states fish and wildlife service, us fish and wildlife service, national park service, financial management service, office of intelligence support, ois, comptroller of the currency, bureau of customs, customs bureau, customs service, uscb, bureau of engraving and printing, internal revenue service, irs, faa, federal aviation agency, transportation security administration, tsa, gao, government accounting office, united states government accounting office, navy, united states navy, us navy, usn, u. s. coast guard, united states coast guard, us coast guard, naval air warfare center weapons division, nawcwpns, naval special warfare, nsw, naval surface warfare center, nswc, naval underwater warfare center, nuwc, office of naval intelligence, oni, marine corps intelligence activity, mcia, air force, u. s. air force, united states air force, us air force, usaf, afisr, air force intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance, air force isr, independent agency, advanced research and development activity, arda, defense logistics agency, defense reutilization and marketing service, drms, defense technical information center, dtic, law enforcement agency, occupational safety and health administration, osha, organ, patent and trademark office database, patent office, government printing office, gpo, united states government printing office, us government printing office, national guard bureau, ngb, army, u. s. army, united states army, us army, usa, ai, army intelligence, ballistic missile defense organization, bmdo, defense information systems agency, disa, national geospatial-intelligence agency, nga, casualty care research center, ccrc, federal housing administration, fha, local authority
Derived form adjective official₂

3.  office(n = noun.act) function, part, role - the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group; "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role"
is a kind of duty
has particulars: capacity, hat, portfolio, lieu, place, position, stead, second fiddle
Derived forms verb officiate₂, verb officiate₁

4.  office(n = noun.state) power - (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power; "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office"; "during his first year in power"; "the power of the president"
is a kind of state
has particulars: executive clemency, war power
Derived forms adjective official₁, verb officiate₂

5.  office(n = noun.group) office staff - professional or clerical workers in an office; "the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard"
is a kind of staff

6.  office(n = noun.act) - a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities; "the offices of the mass"
is a kind of religious rite, rite
has particulars: divine office, little office, office of the dead
Derived forms adjective official₄, verb officiate₂, verb officiate₁

7.  office(n = noun.act) berth, billet, place, position, post, situation, spot - a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
is a kind of business, job, line, line of work, occupation
has particulars: academicianship, accountantship, admiralty, ambassadorship, apostleship, apprenticeship, associateship, attorneyship, bailiffship, baronetage, bishopry, episcopate, cadetship, caliphate, captaincy, captainship, cardinalship, chairmanship, chancellorship, chaplaincy, chaplainship, chieftaincy, chieftainship, clerkship, commandership, commandery, comptrollership, consulship, controllership, councillorship, councilorship, counsellorship, counselorship, curacy, curatorship, custodianship, deanery, deanship, directorship, discipleship, editorship, eldership, emirate, fatherhood, fatherhood, foremanship, generalcy, generalship, governorship, headship, headship, hot seat, incumbency, inspectorship, instructorship, internship, judgeship, judicature, khanate, lectureship, legateship, legation, legislatorship, librarianship, lieutenancy, magistracy, magistrature, managership, manhood, marshalship, mastership, mayoralty, messiahship, moderatorship, overlordship, pastorate, pastorship, peasanthood, plum, praetorship, precentorship, preceptorship, prefecture, prelacy, prelature, premiership, presidency, presidentship, primateship, principalship, priorship, proconsulate, proconsulship, proctorship, chair, professorship, protectorship, public office, rabbinate, receivership, rectorate, rectorship, regency, residency, rulership, sainthood, secretaryship, feudal lordship, seigneury, seigniory, senatorship, sinecure, solicitorship, speakership, stewardship, studentship, teachership, thaneship, throne, treasurership, tribuneship, trusteeship, vice-presidency, viceroyship, viziership, wardenship, wardership, womanhood
Derived form verb officiate₂

1.  That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices. [1913 Webster]
"I would I could do a good office between you." [1913 Webster]

2.  A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office. [1913 Webster]

3.  A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new. [1913 Webster]
"Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office." [1913 Webster]

4.  That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent beings. [1913 Webster]
"They [the eyes] resign their office and their light." [1913 Webster]
"Hesperus, whose office is to bring
Twilight upon the earth." [1913 Webster]
"In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms." [1913 Webster]

5.  The place where any kind of business or service for others is transacted; a building, suite of rooms, or room in which public officers or workers in any organization transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office; the doctor's office; the Mayor's office. [1913 Webster]

6.  The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office. [1913 Webster]

7.  The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. [1913 Webster]
"As for the offices, let them stand at distance." [1913 Webster]

8.  Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service. [1913 Webster]
"This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person." [1913 Webster]

   To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge. Shak. [1913 Webster]

office, n.
1 a room or building used as a place of business, esp. for clerical or administrative work.
2 a room or department or building for a particular kind of business (ticket office; post office).
3 the local centre of a large business (our London office).
4 US the consulting-room of a professional person.
5 a position with duties attached to it; a place of authority or trust or service, esp. of a public nature.
6 tenure of an official position, esp. that of a minister of State or of the party forming the Government (hold office; out of office for 13 years).
7 (Office) the quarters or staff or collective authority of a Government department etc. (Foreign Office).
8 a duty attaching to one's position; a task or function.
9 (usu. in pl.) a piece of kindness or attention; a service (esp. through the good offices of).
10 Eccl. a an authorized form of worship (Office for the Dead). b (in full divine office) the daily service of the Roman Catholic breviary (say the office).
11 a ceremonial duty.
12 (in pl.) Brit. the parts of a house devoted to household work, storage, etc.
13 sl. a hint or signal.

Idiom:
the last offices rites due to the dead. office-bearer an official or officer. office block a large building designed to contain business offices. office boy (or girl) a young man (or woman) employed to do minor jobs in a business office. office hours the hours during which business is normally conducted. office of arms the College of Arms, or a similar body in another country. office-worker an employee in a business office.

Etymology:
ME f. OF f. L officium performance of a task (in med.L also office, divine service), f. opus work + facere fic- do

N  business, occupation, employment, pursuit, what one is doing, what one is about, affair, concern, matter, case, matter in hand, irons in the fire, thing to do, agendum, task, work, job, chore, errand, commission, mission, charge, care, duty, part, role, cue, province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line, walk, walk of life, beat, round, routine, race, career, office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living, situation, berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, vocation, calling, profession, cloth, faculty, industry, art, industrial arts, craft, mystery, handicraft, trade, exercise, work, avocation, press of business, businesslike, workaday, professional, official, functional, busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands, afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting, in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally Adj, a business with an income at its heels, amoto quaeramus seria ludo, par negotiis neque supra.

VB  pass one's time in, employ one's time in, spend one's time in, employ oneself in, employ oneself upon, occupy oneself with, concern oneself with, make it one's business, undertake, enter a profession, betake oneself to, turn one's hand to, have to do with, office, place, post, chargeship, incumbency, living, situation, berth, employ, service, engagement, undertaking, drive a trade, carry on a trade, do a trade, transact a trade, carry on business, do business, transact business, keep a shop, ply one's task, ply one's trade, labor in one's vocation, pursue the even tenor of one's way, attend to business, attend to one's work, officiate, serve, act, act one's part, play one's part, do duty, serve the office of, discharge the office of, perform the office of, perform the duties of, perform the functions of, hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation, hold a portfolio, hold a place, hold a situation, be about, be doing, be engaged in, be employed in, be occupied with, be at work on, have one's hands in, have in hand, have on one's hands, have on one's shoulders, bear the burden, have one's hands full, be in the hands of, be on the stocks, be on the anvil, pass through one's hands, Adj, businesslike, workaday, professional, official, functional, busy, on hand, in hand, in one's hands, afoot, on foot, on the anvil, going on, acting, Adv, in the course of business, all in one's day's work, professionally.

N  workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business, manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory, cabinet, studio, office, branch office bureau, atelier, hive, hive of industry, nursery, hothouse, hotbed, kitchen, mint, forge, loom, dock, dockyard, alveary, armory, laboratory, lab, research institute, refinery, cannery, power plant, beauty parlor, beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf, foundry, foundery, furnace, vineyard, crucible, alembic, caldron, matrix, at work, at the office, at the shop, working.

N  mart, market, marketplace, fair, bazaar, staple, exchange, change, bourse, hall, guildhall, tollbooth, customhouse, Tattersall's, stall, booth, stand, newsstand, cart, wagon, wharf, office, chambers, countinghouse, bureau, counter, compter, shop, emporium, establishment, store, department store, general store, five and ten, variety store, co-op, finding store, grindery warehouse, grocery, supermarket, candy store, sweet shop, confectionery, bakery, greengrocer, delicatessen, bakeshop, butcher shop, fish store, farmers' market, mom and pop store, dairy, health food store, tobacco shop, tobacco store, tobacconists, cigar store, hardware store, jewelry shop, bookstore, liquor store, gun shop, rod and reel shop, furniture store, drugstore, chemist's, florist, flower shop, shoe store, stationer, stationer's, electronics shop, telephone store, music store, record shop, fur store, sporting goods store, video store, video rental store, lumber store, lumber yard, home improvements store, home improvement center, gas station, auto repair shop, auto dealer, used car dealer, mall, suburban mall, commons, pedestrian mall, shopping street, surplus store, army-navy surplus store, auction, flea market, yard sale, garage sale, pawn shop, antiques store, second-hand store, second time around shop, thrift shop, warehouse, wareroom, depot, interposit, entrepot, market-overt, real-estate broker, vending machine.

N  agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play, interworking, interaction, procurement, causation, instrumentality, influence, action, modus operandi, quickening power, maintaining power, sustaining power, home stroke, operative, efficient, efficacious, practical, effectual, at work, on foot, acting, in operation, in force, in action, in play, in exercise, acted upon, wrought upon, by the agency of through, by means of, I myself must mix with action lest I wither by des.

N  worship, adoration, devotion, aspiration, homage, service, humiliation, kneeling, genuflection, prostration, prayer, invocation, supplication, rogation, intercession, orison, holy breathing, petition, collect, litany, Lord's prayer, paternoster, beadroll, latria, dulia, hyperdulia, vigils, revival, cult, anxious meeting, camp meeting, ebenezer, virginal, thanksgiving, giving thanks, returning thanks, grace, praise, glorification, benediction, doxology, hosanna, hallelujah, allelujah, Te Deum, non nobis Domine, nunc dimittis, paean, benschen, Ave Maria, O Salutaris, Sanctus, The Annunciation, Tersanctus, Trisagion, psalm, psalmody, hymn, plain song, chant, chaunt, response, anthem, motet, antiphon, antiphony, oblation, sacrifice, incense, libation, burnt offering, heave offering, votive offering, offertory, discipline, self-discipline, self-examination, self-denial, fasting, divine service, office, duty, exercises, morning prayer, mass, matins, evensong, vespers, undernsong, tierce, holyday, worshipper, congregation, communicant, celebrant, worshipping, devout, devotional, reverent, pure, solemn, fervid, Int, hallelujah, allelujah!, hosanna!, glory be to God!, O Lord!, pray God that!, God grant, God bless, God save, God forbid!, sursum corda, making their lives a prayer, ora et labora, prayers ardent open heaven.

N  receptacle, inclosure, recipient, receiver, reservatory, compartment, cell, cellule, follicle, hole, corner, niche, recess, nook, crypt, stall, pigeonhole, cove, oriel, cave, capsule, vesicle, cyst, pod, calyx, cancelli, utricle, bladder, pericarp, udder, stomach, paunch, venter, ventricle, crop, craw, maw, gizzard, breadbasket, mouth, pocket, pouch, fob, sheath, scabbard, socket, bag, sac, sack, saccule, wallet, cardcase, scrip, poke, knit, knapsack, haversack, sachel, satchel, reticule, budget, net, ditty bag, ditty box, housewife, hussif, saddlebags, portfolio, quiver, chest, box, coffer, caddy, case, casket, pyx, pix, caisson, desk, bureau, reliquary, trunk, portmanteau, band-box, valise, grip, grip sack, skippet, vasculum, boot, imperial, vache, cage, manger, rack, vessel, vase, bushel, barrel, canister, jar, pottle, basket, pannier, buck-basket, hopper, maund, creel, cran, crate, cradle, bassinet, wisket, whisket, jardiniere, corbeille, hamper, dosser, dorser, tray, hod, scuttle, utensil, brazier, cuspidor, spittoon, cistern, vat, caldron, barrel, cask, drum, puncheon, keg, rundlet, tun, butt, cag, firkin, kilderkin, carboy, amphora, bottle, jar, decanter, ewer, cruse, caraffe, crock, kit, canteen, flagon, demijohn, flask, flasket, stoup, noggin, vial, phial, cruet, caster, urn, epergne, salver, patella, tazza, patera, pig gin, big gin, tyg, nipperkin, pocket pistol, tub, bucket, pail, skeel, pot, tankard, jug, pitcher, mug, pipkin, galipot, gallipot, matrass, receiver, retort, alembic, bolthead, capsule, can, kettle, bowl, basin, jorum, punch bowl, cup, goblet, chalice, tumbler, glass, rummer, horn, saucepan, skillet, posnet, tureen, beaker, flask, Erlenmeyer flask, Florence flask, round-bottom flask, graduated cylinder, test tube, culture tube, pipette, Pasteur pipette, disposable pipette, syringe, vial, carboy, vacuum flask, Petri dish, microtiter tray, centrifuge tube, bail, beaker, billy, canakin, catch basin, catch drain, chatti, lota, mussuk, schooner, spider, terrine, toby, urceus, plate, platter, dish, trencher, calabash, porringer, potager, saucer, pan, crucible, glassware, tableware, vitrics, compote, gravy boat, creamer, sugar bowl, butter dish, mug, pitcher, punch bowl, chafing dish, shovel, trowel, spoon, spatula, ladle, dipper, tablespoon, watch glass, thimble, closet, commode, cupboard, cellaret, chiffonniere, locker, bin, bunker, buffet, press, clothespress, safe, sideboard, drawer, chest of drawers, chest on chest, highboy, lowboy, till, scrutoire, secretary, secretaire, davenport, bookcase, cabinet, canterbury, escritoire, etagere, vargueno, vitrine, chamber, apartment, room, cabin, office, court, hall, atrium, suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story, saloon, salon, parlor, by-room, cubicle, presence chamber, sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room, gallery, cabinet, closet, pew, box, boudoir, adytum, sanctum, bedroom, dormitory, refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger, nursery, schoolroom, library, study, studio, billiard room, smoking room, den, stateroom, tablinum, tenement, bath room, bathroom, toilet, lavatory, powder room, john, jakes, necessary, loo, men's room, ladies' room, rest room, (uncleanness), 653 attic, loft, garret, cockloft, clerestory, cellar, vault, hold, cockpit, cubbyhole, cook house, entre-sol, mezzanine floor, ground floor, rez-de-chaussee, basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery, offices, storeroom, lumber room, dairy, laundry, coach house, garage, hangar, outhouse, penthouse, lean-to, portico, porch, stoop, stope, veranda, patio, lanai, terrace, deck, lobby, court, courtyard, hall, vestibule, corridor, passage, breezeway, ante room, ante chamber, lounge, piazza, veranda, conservatory, greenhouse, bower, arbor, summerhouse, alcove, grotto, hermitage, lodging, bed, carriage, capsular, saccular, sacculated, recipient, ventricular, cystic, vascular, vesicular, cellular, camerated, locular, multilocular, polygastric, marsupial, siliquose, siliquous.

booking office, box office, business office, by right of office, central office, crown office, divine office, employment office, executive office of the president, federal office, foreign office, french foreign office, government accounting office, government office, government printing office, hold office, home office, land office, leave office, left-luggage office, life office, little office, loan office, local post office, main office, national reconnaissance office, office block, office boy, office building, office furniture, office of homeland security, office of inspector general, office of intelligence support, office of management and budget, office of naval intelligence, office of the dead, office staff, office wire, oval office, patent and trademark office database, patent office, personnel office, placement office, police office, post office, public office, shipping office, spoils of office, staff office, take office, term of office, ticket office, united nations office for drug control and crime p, united states government accounting office, united states government printing office, united states post office, us government printing office, us post office