Definition of office

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Office (n.) A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office..

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Soldier :: Soldier (n.) Especially, a private in military service, as distinguished from an officer..
Postmark :: Postmark (n.) The mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving the place and date of mailing or of arrival..
Chapel :: Chapel (n.) An association of workmen in a printing office.
Apparitor :: Apparitor (n.) Formerly, an officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders..
Surrogate :: Surrogate (n.) In some States of the United States, an officer who presides over the probate of wills and testaments and yield the settlement of estates..
Palace :: Palace (n.) The residence of a sovereign, including the lodgings of high officers of state, and rooms for business, as well as halls for ceremony and reception..
Selectman :: Selectman (n.) One of a board of town officers chosen annually in the New England States to transact the general public business of the town, and have a kind of executive authority. The number is usually from three to seven in each town..
Junket :: Junket (v. i.) To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
Observatory :: Observatory (n.) A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire.
Tithingman :: Tithingman (n.) A parish officer elected annually to preserve good order in the church during divine service, to make complaint of any disorderly conduct, and to enforce the observance of the Sabbath..
Ensigncy :: Ensigncy (n.) The rank or office of an ensign.
Marshalship :: Marshalship (n.) The office of a marshal.
Chapel :: Chapel (n.) A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey..
Languet :: Languet (n.) Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth..
Protest :: Protest (v.) A declaration made by the master of a vessel before a notary, consul, or other authorized officer, upon his arrival in port after a disaster, stating the particulars of it, and showing that any damage or loss sustained was not owing to the fault of the vessel, her officers or crew, but to the perils of the sea, etc., ads the case may be, and protesting against them..
Return :: Return (n.) The rendering back or delivery of writ, precept, or execution, to the proper officer or court..
Corps :: Corps (n. sing. & pl.) The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed.
Deanship :: Deanship (n.) The office of a dean.
Mufti :: Mufti (n.) Citizen's dress when worn by a naval or military officer; -- a term derived from the British service in India.
Nomination :: Nomination (n.) The act of naming or nominating; designation of a person as a candidate for office; the power of nominating; the state of being nominated.
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