office
SubstantivVerbTop 1 000 in Filmdialogen
- Vereinigtes Königreich//ˈɒf.ɪs//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈɔ.fɪs//
- Vereinigte Staaten//ˈɑ-//
- Australien//ˈɔf.ɪs//
A ceremonial duty or service, particularly
Substantiv
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A ceremonial duty or service, particularly
Golde (gaue he him)[…]for all maner of veſſels of euery offyce[…]
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A ceremonial duty or service The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.
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A ceremonial duty or service Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin.
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A ceremonial duty or service A daily service without the eucharist.
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A ceremonial duty or service 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.
His spirituall exercises were chiefly Prayer, the H. Sacrifice of Masse, his Canonicall Houres or diuine Office.
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A ceremonial duty or service Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service.
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A ceremonial duty or service Last rites.
The deuout offices of balming and anointing the dead bodies[…]
To show their loue in this last office done To a dead friend.
I[…]will be first to render thee the decent offices due to the dead.
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veraltetA ceremonial duty or service Mass, (particularly) the introit sung at its beginning.
The office, or Introite, (as they call it).
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A position of responsibility.
When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department.
Do not conflate the officeholder with the office; the distinction sometimes matters.
[…]in as moche as I am the apoſtle off the gentyls I will magnify myn office[…]
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."
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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.
Fla.[…]Well, would I were / Gently put out of Office, before I were forc'd out[…]
The Tories had been in office ten years.
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A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; (obsolete, rare) moral duty.
Ang.... Doe you your office, or giue vp your Place, And you shall well be spar'd.
The Sun was ſunk, and after him the Starr / Of Heſperus, whoſe Office is to bring / Twilight upon the Earth[…]
The Antients would certainly have invoked the Goddeſs Flora for this Purpoſe, and it would have been no Difficulty for their Prieſts or Politicians to have perſuaded the People of the real Preſence of the Deity, though a plain Mortal had perſonated her, and performed her Office.
A woman[…]might bring herself to submit to the offices of a nurse, for the sake of the provision and security of a wife.
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altertümlichFunction: anything typically done by or expected of something.
In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
I hope you saw her petticoat, six inches deep in mud,[…]and the gown which had been let down to hide it, not doing its office.
These ‘Pacific boom-lateens’... are believed to derive from a kind of sprit-sail... in which the upper sprit performs the office of a more or less aft-raking mast.
The anxious businessman will learn that in most of Southeast Asia,... presenting your business card with your left hand is an affront, every decent Moslem knowing the filthy, smelly offices you reserve that left hand for.
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A service, a kindness.
The secretary prevailed at the negotiations through the good offices of the Freedonian ambassador.
...which we have hitherto forborne to graunt... for the evell offices whiche her other Secretary did there.
Bush. Thither will I with you, for little office Will the hatefull commons perfourme for vs, Except like curs to teare vs all to pieces...
One of the Maxims which the Devil, in a late Viſit upon Earth, left to his Diſciples, is, when once you are got up, to kick the Stool from under you. In plain Engliſh, when you have made your Fortune by the good Offices of a Friend, you are adviſed to diſcard him as ſoon as you can.
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übertragenInside information.
Giving the office—is when you suffer any person, who may stand behind your chair, to look over your hand.
"[…]What is there for me in it?" "Not a shilling." "What? Wasn't it I that gave the information? Where would you have been if I had not given you the office?"
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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.
Now it came to paſſe that at what time the chest was brought vnto the kings office, by the hand of the Leuites[…]
Griffith, having taken offices a few doors off, also carried on the business of a solicitor.
We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case.
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A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping.
The “Pall Mall Gazette” had its offices[…]in Catherine Street[…]
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A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public.
There will be some of the family waiting for you at the coach-office.
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A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures.
This one was made out at a private office—Office is American for Surgery.
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übertragenThe staff of such places.
The whole office was there... well, except you, of course.
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übertragenThe administrative departments housed in such places, particularly
He's from our public relations office.
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übertragenThe administrative departments housed in such places A ministry or other department of government.
The secretary of state's British colleague heads the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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übertragenThe administrative departments housed in such places A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business.
He worked as the receptionist at the Akron office.
But there is an Insuring-Office set up in the Gospel, as to the venture of our eternities.
Would not an Office of Insurance for Servants be of Service, and what Methods are proper for the erecting such an Office?
[…]there are advertising offices, and[…]by applying to them I should have no doubt of very soon meeting with something that would do.
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veraltendThe parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly (euphemistic, dated) a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories.
As for the Offices, let them stand at some Distance from the House, with some low covered Galleries, to pass from them to the Palace it self.
... proposals for erecting 500 Publick Offices of Ease in London and Westminster...
A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices.
Only in planted areas does one find old examples of planned ‘courtyard farms’ where the house and offices enclose a square or rectangular yard.
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veraltetA piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.
All hunt in James Whitendales office.
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übertragenA hangout: a place where one is normally found.
His Office, any Man's ordinary Haunt, or Plying-place, be it Tavern, Ale-house, Gaming-house.
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veraltendA plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.
I withdraw into ‘the office’, otherwise the observer's cockpit.
In the slang of the Royal Air Force man, the cockpit of his plane is the ‘pulpit’ or ‘office’, the glass covering over it the ‘greenhouse’.
‘Up in the office they too knew it.’ ‘The office? You mean the flight deck?’ ‘Just that. No more. No less. The office.’
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A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.
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veraltetAn official or group of officials; (figuratively) a personification of officeholders.
[…]For who would beare... The pangs of despiz'd loue, the lawes delay, The insolence of office... When he himselfe might his quietas make... With a bare bodkin?
Ped. Now Mr. Office: What is the Reason that your vigilant Greatness And your Wife's wonderful wiseness have lock'd up from me The way to see my Mistress? Who's Dog's dead now, That you observe these Vigils?
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veraltetA bodily function, (particularly) urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.
Cassio.... Whom I, with all the Office of my heart Intirely honour[…]
Washing themselves, as they doe also after the offices of Nature.
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.
The very clerks,—those somewhat dirty springs / Of office, or the House of Office[…]
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veraltetThe performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.
[…]whan the Quene of riche Arabia sawe all the wyſzdome of Salomon[…]⁊ the offyces of his miniſters, and their garmentes[…]ſhe wondred exceadingly[…]
At Rome (nor think me partial to the Poor) / All Offices of ours are out of Door[…]
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Variante von Holy OfficeübertragenThe administrative departments housed in such places Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.
A Biscayner is capable to be a Cavalier of any of the three habits without any scrutiny to be made of the Office, whether he be, limpio de la sangre de los Moros, that is cleare of the bloud of the Moores or no.
They abiured their Heresy bublikly [sic] before the Commissary of the holy office.
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Variante von inquest of officehistorischClipping of inquest of office
If they find the treason or felony... of the party accused... the king is thereupon, by virtue of this office found, intitled to have his forfeitures.
If the Crown claimed the land of an idiot, the person had first to be found an idiot by office.
Herkunft
From 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 do, to make”)). In the religious sense, Displaced native Old English hād. The computing sense is a genericization of various proprietary program suites, such as Microsoft Office.
Verb
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To provide (someone) with an office.
Is he officed in Congressional Relations or is he officed in SCA?
Prior to that time, Station personnel were first officed in temporary wartime barracks on the campus and then on the second floor of the Journalism Building.
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To have an office.
"I believed that Dave was just doing a favor for his brother," said Somerville, who added that he assumed Lou and Dave officed together.
Formen
- Plural
- offices
- Präteritum
- officed
- Partizip II
- officed
- Partizip I
- officing
- 3. Person Singular
- offices
office · A ceremonial duty or service, particularly
officer · One who has a position of authority in a hierarchical…Officer · A surname.official · Of or about an office or public trust.