office

Definitions

• (religion) A ceremonial duty or religious service, particularly:
• A position of responsibility.
• Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.
• (obsolete) An official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
• A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete) moral duty.
• (obsolete) The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
• (archaic) Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.
• (obsolete) A bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
• (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.
• (figuratively) inside Inside information.
• A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:
• (figuratively) The staff of such places.
• (figuratively) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:
• (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 (euphemism) a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories.
• (UK) : an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.
• (obsolete) A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
• (figuratively) A hangout: a place where one is normally found.
• (UK) A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
• (computing) A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.