What's the difference between disservice and office?

Disservice


Definition:

  • (n.) Injury; mischief.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 8.41am BST Oscar Trial Channel (@OscarTrial199) Masipa says leaking of documents is disservice to justice, and that person who does it, is a thief.
  • (2) By pretending to ignore the scientific evidence, AquaBounty is doing readers a disservice.
  • (3) Come to that, in a Westminster week where only Syria has displaced allegations of horrifying bullying in the Conservative youth wing – which involve a young man taking his own life – we surely do a disservice to the victims most in need of our help if we fail to make a distinction between bullying and dissent.
  • (4) Philip Purser, the Sunday Telegraph's long-serving TV critic, wrote in his 1992 autobiography, Done Viewing, that "the gravest disservice that Dallas did television was to create an appetite for flavours so strong and artificial that the palate was ruined for more subtle and natural tastes".
  • (5) John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, said: "The CBI claims to represent the interests of British industry but it's actually doing its members a great disservice.
  • (6) To have so few diverse representatives from the community does it a disservice.
  • (7) We would be doing a disservice to those warriors of justice … were we to deny that the scars of our nation’s original sin are still with us today,” he said.
  • (8) A call is made for physicians to continuously look for cheaper ways of managing patients without necessarily causing any disservice to the patient.
  • (9) Preserving the "every woman can nurse" myth contributes to perpetuating a simplistic view of lactation and does a disservice to the small percentage of women with primary causes of unsuccessful lactation.
  • (10) With that exclusion, they did all of us a disservice, because that history is Australia’s history, it is important for all Australians to know where we’ve come from, and by pretending it didn’t exist, they robbed us all of something unique.
  • (11) We do a disservice to the cause of justice by intimating that bias and discrimination are immutable, or that racial division is inherent to America.
  • (12) "This conduct is gross disservice to Chinua Achebe and disrespectful of the life-engrossing occupation known as literature.
  • (13) It had been dubbed "the female answer to The Hangover" – a niche women's film – but to pigeonhole it in such a way is to do it a huge disservice.
  • (14) They have done a disservice to the field in disparaging basic research.
  • (15) October 31, 2013 12.04am GMT Email From Matthew: I know it is easy to decry the coverage by Fox, but they really did a disservice to the audience by breaking away from the Dropkick Murphys firing up the Boston faithful.
  • (16) When the pontiff can’t bring the hammer down hard on one of the globe’s most egregious and well-documented bishops complicit in child abuse cover-ups, he does a disservice to disillusioned Catholics who expect real reform.
  • (17) The physician who delays or defers a careful investigation into the cause of a given patient's hematuria (gross or microscopic) does the patient a disservice at best and, at worst, may inadvertently permit a significant disease process to become more extensive.
  • (18) By operating in isolation and missing the bigger picture, we can do them a disservice.
  • (19) The use of mythology to simplify experiments, to artificially "clarify" complex issues, or to "protect" patients is seen as a disservice.
  • (20) If you try to deny that's there, I do myself and the people I represent a disservice."

Office


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office.
  • (n.) The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
  • (n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.
  • (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.
  • (v. t.) To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Villagers, including one man who has been left disabled and the relatives of six men who were killed, are suing ABG in the UK high court, represented by British law firm Leigh Day, alleging that Tanzanian police officers shot unarmed locals.
  • (2) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (3) M NET is currently installed in referring physician office sites across the state, with additional physician sites identified and program enhancements under development.
  • (4) Despite a 10-year deadline to have the same number of ethnic minority officers in the ranks as in the populations they serve, the target was missed and police are thousands of officers short.
  • (5) Prior to joining JOE Media, Will was chief commercial officer at Dazed Group, where he also sat on the board of directors.
  • (6) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
  • (7) They have actively intervened with governments, and particularly so in Africa.” José Luis Castro, president and chief executive officer of Vital Strategies, an organisation that promotes public health in developing countries, said: “The danger of tobacco is not an old story; it is the present.
  • (8) Former detectives had dug out damning evidence of abuse, as well as testimony from officers recommending prosecution, sources said.
  • (9) A tall young Border Police officer stopped me, his rifle cradled in his arms.
  • (10) The matter is now in the hands of the Guernsey police and the law officers.” One resident who is a constant target of the paper and has complained to police, Rosie Guille, said the allegations had a “huge impact on morale” on the island.
  • (11) "We have peace in Sierra Leone now, and Tony Blair made a huge contribution to that," said Warrant Officer Abu Bakerr Kamara.
  • (12) The Labour MP urged David Cameron to guarantee that officers who give evidence over the alleged paedophile ring in Westminster will not be prosecuted.
  • (13) Peter Stott of the Met Office, who led the study, said: "With global warming we're talking about very big changes in the overall water cycle.
  • (14) It can also solve a lot of problems – period.” However, Trump did not support making the officer-worn video cameras mandatory across the country, as the Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton has done , noting “different police departments feel different ways”.
  • (15) A third autopsy of Tomlinson, conducted on behalf of the officer, agreed with the findings of the second postmortem.
  • (16) At the weekend the couple’s daughter, Holly Graham, 29, expressed frustration at the lack of information coming from the Foreign Office and the tour operator that her parents travelled with.
  • (17) With such protection, Dempster tended professionally to outlive those inside and outside the office who claimed that he was outdated.
  • (18) On 18 March 1996, the force agreed, without admitting any wrongdoing by any officer, to pay Tomkins £40,000 compensation, and £70,000 for his legal costs.
  • (19) The findings provide additional evidence that, for at least some cases, the likelihood of a physician's admitting a patient to the hospital is influenced by the patient's living arrangements, travel time to the physician's office, and the extent to which medical care would cause a financial hardship for the patient.
  • (20) When the standoff ended after 30 minutes, a French police officer told the migrants: “Here is your friend.