(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.
Stationery
Definition:
(n.) The articles usually sold by stationers, as paper, pens, ink, quills, blank books, etc.
(a.) Belonging to, or sold by, a stationer.
Example Sentences:
(1) The payments were made for ICT hardware, software, associated support services, marketing and company stationery.
(2) Thin stationery paper is used as the absorbent material which controls sedimentation speed and minimizes cellular loss.
(3) Doctor, nurse, chiropodist, dietitian, clerical officer, building and stationery costs were included in the evaluation.
(4) Simple things like buying stationery to sharing grounds and office space are good places to look."
(5) Daft deal Photograph: Debbie Wilbur Three for the price of two is the kind of deal you see all the time, but Asda has gone a little bit further with this offer of three pencil sharpeners for the price of four – it's even included other stationery in the promotion.
(6) His rain-dependent crops were failing anyway, and he hoped to start a stationery shop in a near by town with the money.
(7) The supermarket said electrical goods, homewares, flowers, stationery and toys were particularly buoyant.
(8) Stationery and Reprographics Officer, Royal Household.
(9) Gone are the days when winning The Apprentice meant a lifetime spent buffing Lord Sugar's paperclip collection while weeping with glee in a stationery cupboard off the A1023.
(10) It's a type of benefit on offer for 16- to 18-year-olds in further education from low-income families intended to help pay for essential resources that parents are unable to fund, such as books, stationery and travel cards.
(11) Two groups were allowed to keep their stationery, and two groups were not.
(12) We discuss how pupils have to choose what uniform to wear, what books to read, what sports to play, even what stationery to use, and I think of Julia insisting on wearing her school skirt, and Tom’s football-boot pencil case.
(13) Three-quarters (77%) were providing school bags and stationery; almost half (46%) have provided basic items of clothing like underwear; almost a quarter (24%) have provided laundry facilities; 15% were providing shower facilities, and more than half (54%) were providing free after-school clubs and help with transport.
(14) A “Dora the Explorer” stationery set jostles for space with a white plastic Christmas tree, crammed sideways into a box on the floor.
(15) Of those schools having to make savings, 49% said they were restricting the use of basic resources such as stationery.
(16) Purchasing books, stationery and equipment cost parents an average of £60 a child.
(17) If in the past Anderson has made esoteric references, including to J-cloths and stationery, his backstage explanation was strikingly simple this time.
(18) Palmer said: "Overall, the sectors that are most vulnerable include those affected by shoppers moving to online or digital formats, such as specialists in music, games, books, news and stationery along with the specialists that are most affected by the convenience and price-driven offering of the supermarkets, which includes chemists, health and beauty, and alcohol retailers."
(19) It is a great deal of money, but the MoJ never acknowledges that barristers earn fees, not salaries, and fees have to cover every cost incurred, from shoe leather to stationery to the hours spent in preparation.
(20) This former home of the HMSO government stationery department is one of Norwich's forgotten modernist icons – as is the Hollywood Cinema upstairs, which screened the premiere of Alpha Papa and where Alan himself declared "I love Norwich!"