<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a room, set of rooms, or building where the business of a commercial or industrial organization or of a professional person is conducted: the main office of an insurance company; a doctor's office.</li><li>a room assigned to a specific person or a group of persons in a commercial or industrial organization: Her office is next to mine.</li><li>a business or professional organization: He went to work in an architect's office.</li><li>the staff or designated part of a staff at a commercial or industrial organization: The whole office was at his wedding.</li><li>a position of duty, trust, or authority, especially in the government, a corporation, a society, or the like: She was elected twice to the office of president.</li><li>employment or position as an official: to seek office.</li><li>the duty, function, or part of a particular person or agency: to act in the office of adviser.</li><li>(initial capital letter) an operating agency or division of certain departments of the U.S. Government: Office of Community Services.</li><li>(initial capital letter) British: a major administrative unit or department of the national government: the Foreign Office.</li><li>Slang: hint, signal, or warning; high sign.</li><li>Often offices: something, whether good or bad, done or said for or to another: He obtained a position through the offices of a friend.</li><li>Ecclesiastical: the prescribed order or form for a service of the church or for devotional use; the services so prescribed.</li><li>a ceremony or rite, especially for the dead.</li><li>a service or task to be performed; assignment; chore: little domestic offices.</li><li>offices, Chiefly British: the parts of a house, as the kitchen, pantry, or laundry, devoted mainly to household work.</li><li>the stables, barns, cowhouses, etc., of a farm.</li><li>Older Slang: privy.</li></ul>