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Little Office   /lˈɪtəl ˈɔfəs/   Listen
noun
Office  n.  
1.
That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices. "I would I could do a good office between you."
2.
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.
3.
A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new. "Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office."
4.
That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; answering to duty in intelligent beings. "They (the eyes) resign their office and their light." "Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the earth." "In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms."
5.
The place where any kind of business or service for others is transacted; a building, suite of rooms, or room in which public officers or workers in any organization transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office; the doctor's office; the Mayor's office.
6.
The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
7.
pl. The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. (Eng.) "As for the offices, let them stand at distance."
8.
(Eccl.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service. "This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person."
Holy office. Same as Inquisition, n., 3.
Houses of office. Same as def. 7 above.
Little office (R. C. Ch.), an office recited in honor of the Virgin Mary.
Office bearer, an officer; one who has a specific office or duty to perform.
Office copy (Law), an authenticated or certified copy of a record, from the proper office. See Certified copies, under Copy.
Office-found (Law), the finding of an inquest of office. See under Inquest.
Office holder. See Officeholder in the Vocabulary
Office hours. the hours of the day during which business is transacted at an office (5).
Office seeker. a person who is attempting to get elected to an elected office, or to get an appointment to an appointive public office.





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"Little office" Quotes from Famous Books



... day of exultation, when the psalm was still repeating itself triumphantly in their ears, the dreaded word came from the battlefield. Mr. Holmes received the telegram at the little office behind the store. He had been very distant with Mr. Sinclair ever since he joined the Methodists against the Presbyterians, but he forgot all about their estrangement in the terrible task that faced him of carrying the news to the Lindsay family. So he went hurriedly to the Manse with ...
— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith
... perturbed, agonised. Yet at the same time she had the desperate calm of the captain of a ship about to founder with all hands. And she saw glimpses, beautiful and compensatory, of the romantic quality of common life. She was in a little office of a perfectly ordinary boarding-house—(she could even detect the stale odours of cooking)—with a realistic man of business, and they were about to discuss a perfectly ordinary piece of scandal; and surely they might be called two common-sense people! And withal, the ordinariness ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett
... house. Her conception of her publishing house was finished about the same time as her class-day gown. She was to have a roll-top desk—probably of mahogany—and a big chair which whirled round like that in the office of the under-graduate dean. She was to have a little office all by herself, opening on a bigger office—the little one marked "Private." There were to be beautiful rugs—the general effect not unlike the library at the University Club—books and pictures and cultivated gentlemen who spoke often of Greek ...
— Lifted Masks - Stories • Susan Glaspell
... up the green lawn to the wide veranda at the rear of Harlowe House. One by one they noiselessly mounted the steps. Emma, finger on her lips, cast a comical glance at the maid, who tittered faintly; then the stealthy procession crept down the hall in the direction of Grace Harlowe's little office. There was an instant's silent rallying of forces of which the young woman at the desk, who sat writing busily, was totally unconscious, then, of a sudden, she heard a ringing call of "Three cheers for Loyalheart!" and ...
— Grace Harlowe's Problem • Jessie Graham Flower
... material ambitions of Mother. One summer he spent on the old homestead and grew onions; the seed he used was poor, few came up, and a summer of hard work, for both him and Mother, came to nothing. For a time he studied medicine in the office of Doctor Hull near Ashokan, and there, sitting in the little office at a spot now just on the edge of the water of what is now the great Ashokan Reservoir, he wrote his poem, "Waiting." One cannot but marvel at the prophecy of it, the vision of the discouraged boy of twenty-five every line of ...
— My Boyhood • John Burroughs


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