office
- IPA[ˈôfəs]
美式
- a room, set of rooms, or building used as a place for commercial, professional, or bureaucratic work；the local center of a large business
noun: office, plural noun: offices
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. a room, set of rooms, or building used as a place for commercial, professional, or bureaucratic work an office job computers first appeared in offices in the late 1970s 同義詞
- ▪ the local center of a large business a company that has four U.S. and four European offices 同義詞
- ▪ a room, department, or building used to provide a particular service a ticket office a Post Office
- ▪ North American the consulting room of a professional person a patient walks in to a doctor's office
- 2. a position of authority or service, typically one of a public nature the office of attorney general 同義詞
- ▪ tenure of an official position, especially a government position a year ago, when the President took office he was ejected from office in 1988
- ▪ the quarters, staff, or collective authority of a particular government department or agency the Foreign Office
- 3. a service or kindness done for another person or group of people rescued through the good offices of the Italian Ambassador, he was returned safely to England 同義詞
- ▪ dated a duty attaching to one's position; a task or function the offices of a nurse 同義詞
- 4. the series of services of prayers and psalms said (or chanted) daily by Roman Catholic priests, members of religious orders, and other clergy.
- ▪ a prayer service conducted daily as part of the Divine Office the noon office
