Meaning

noun place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed

noun an administrative unit of government

noun the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group

originFrom 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…

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