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Definition: Office |
OfficeNoun1. Place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed; "he rented an office in the new building". 2. An administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority". 3. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group: "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role". 4. (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power; "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in power". 5. Professional or clerical workers in an office; "the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard". 6. A religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities; "the offices of the mass". 7. A job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "office" was first used: sometime around 1250. (references) |
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Computing | Office Microsoft Office. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Dream Interpretation | For a person to dream that he holds office, denotes that his aspirations will sometimes make him undertake dangerous paths, but his boldness will be rewarded with success. If he fails by any means to secure a desired office he will suffer keen disappointment in his affairs. To dream that you are turned out of office, signifies loss of valuables. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
European Union | FG. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | The facility housing the switching system and related equipment that provides telephone service for customers in the immediate geographical area. Source: European Union. (references) |
Publishing & Graphic Arts | Place where a particular kind of business is transacted or a service supplied. Source: European Union. (references) |
Slang in 1811 | OFFICE. To give the office; to give information, or make signs to the officers to take a thief. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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The cursus honorum was the sequential order of public offices held by aspiring politicians in the Roman Republic and early Empire, designed for men of senatorial rank. The cursus honorum comprised a mixture of military and political administration posts. Each office had a minimum age for election; minimum intervals applied between holding successive offices; and laws forbade repeating an office. These rules were altered and flagrantly ignored in the course of the last century of the Republic. Gaius Marius for example, held consulships for five years in a row, between 104 and 100 BC. Officially presented as opportunities for public service, the offices often became mere opportunities for self-aggrandizement. The reforms of Sulla required a 2-year period between holding offices or before another term in the same office.The cursus honorum officially began with ten years of military duty in the roman cavalry (the equites) or in the staff of a relative or a friend of the family. Nepotism was not seen as a wrong way of achievement: it was an integrated part of the system. These ten years were mandatory for qualification to political offices. In practice, the rule was not adopted so rigidly.
The following steps of the cursus honorum were achieved by direct election every year. In Rome there were no modern-like political parties. Candidates were elected due to family reputation and/or their own. Older families candidates were favoured because they could use their ancestor's feats as electoral propaganda.
The first official post was of quaestor. Minimum age to apply to this election was 30 years. Men of patrician rank could, however, subtract two years to this minimum age, as well as the following. Numbered 8 to 12, the quaestors served in financial administration at Rome or as second in command to governors. After election to quaestor, automatic membership in the Senate.
At 36 years of age, the successful men could try an election for one of the four aedile positions. The aediles carried administrative responsibilities in Rome. This step was optional.
Praetors were elected in a number of six, from men older than 39 years. The main responsibilities were of judicial kind in Rome. They could also control provinces not given to consuls and command one legion.
The consul office is the most prestigious of all and represented the summit of a successful career. Minimum age was 42. The names of the two elected consuls gave the name to the year of the office. Consuls were responsible for the city's political agenda, commanded large-scale armies and controlled important provinces. The attempt for a second mandate as consul could only be submitted to election after an interval of 10 years.
The censor office, the only with a period of five years, instead of the usual two, held little more than representative duties. Censors were responsible, among other things, for the moral status of the city.
Although apart from the cursus honorun, the office of tribune was an important step in the political career of plebeians.
To have held each office at the youngest possible age (in suo anno, "in his year") was considered a great political success, since to miss out on a praetorship at 39 meant that one could NOT become consul at 42. Cicero expressed extreme pride both in being a novus homo ("new man") who became consul though none of his ancestors had ever served as a consul, and in having become consul "in his year".
Other important roman offices, outside the cursus honorum are: governor, pontifex maximus (high priest), princeps senatus (speaker of the senate), tribune
See also: Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Roman senate, career
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cursus honorum."
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Microsoft Office is a series of suites of productivity programs by Microsoft.They have generally included:
They have sometimes also included:
- Word word processor,
- Excel spreadsheet,
- Outlook Personal information manager and communication software
- PowerPoint presentation software,
Major Microsoft Windows versions include:
- Access database manager
- Microsoft Entourage Personal information manager and communication software for Apple Macintosh only
- Microsoft Publisher Desktop publishing software
- Microsoft FrontPage web design software
- Microsoft Internet Explorer web browser
- Microsoft Visio diagram software
- Microsoft Project project manager
- Microsoft MapPoint mapping software
There have been variants of the later versions such as Small Business Edition, Professional Edition and Developer Edition with slightly different collections of applications.
- Office 4.3 (The last 16-bit version; Word 6.0, etc.)
- Office 95 (Word 95, etc.)
- Office 97 (Word 97, etc.)
- Office 2000 (Word 2000, etc.)
- Office XP (Word 2002, etc.)
- Office 2003 (Word 2003, etc.) - released October 21, 2003
Beginning with the 1997 edition, Microsoft Agent (in 2000 and up) and a similar actor technology (in 97) have been used to provide the Office Assistant, sometimes dubbed "Clippy" or "Clippit", an interactive help tool.
Apple Macintosh versions include:
- Office 98 (Word 98, etc)
- Office 2001 (Word 2002, etc)
- Office v.X (Word X, etc)
See also
OpenOffice, KOffice and GNOME Office (Open source alternatives).WPS Office is an alternative to Microsoft Office aimed at the Chinese market.
External links
- Microsoft Office (for Windows) Home Page
- Microsoft Office v. X (for Mac OS X) Home Page
- Microsoft Office 2001 (for Mac OS 8-9) Home Page
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Microsoft Office."
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An office is a room or other divided area in which people work. The term "office" may also be used to refer to business-related tasks.An office is an architectural and design phenomenon and a social phenomenon, wether it is a tiny office such as a bench in the corner of a "Mom and Pop shop" of extremely small size or entire floors of huge buidings. In modern terms an office usually refers to the location where blue-collar workers are employed during the day.
Offices in classical antiquity where often part of a palace complex or a large temple. There was usually a room where scrolls were kept and scribes did their work. Ancient texts mentioning the work of scribes allude to the existence of such "offices". These rooms are sometimes called "libraries" by some archeologists and the general press because one often associates scrolls with literature. In fact they were true offices since the scrolls were meant for record keeping and other management functions such as treaties and edicts, and not for writing or keeping poetry or other works of fiction.
Pre-industrial illustrations such as paintings or tapestries often show us personalities or eponyms in their private offices, handling record keeping books or writing on scrolls of parchment. All kinds of writings seemed to be mixed in these early forms of offices. Before the invention of the printing press and its distribution there was often a very thin line between a private office and a private library since books were read or written in the same space at the same Desk or table, and general accounting and personal or private letters were also done there.
The medieval chancery was usually the place where most government letters were written and were laws were copied in the administration of a kingdom. The rooms of the chancery often had walls full of pigeonholes, constructed to hold rolled up pieces of parchment for safekeeping or ready reference. The introduction of printing during the Renaissance did not change these early government offices much.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Office."
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The head of state of the United States is called the President, who also serves the functions of chief executive and commander in chief of the armed forces. By current law, the U.S. president serves a four-year term and may only be re-elected once, as a result of the twenty-second amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
As the most powerful person in the United States, a democratic republic and currently the world's only superpower, the President is sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," though this designation was more common during the Cold War. In slang, the President of the United States is sometimes called by the acronym POTUS. The wife of the President is traditionally referred to as the First Lady.
Presidential powers
George Washington
1st President
(1789-1797)The office of president of the United States is one of the most powerful offices of its kind in the world. The president, the Constitution says, must "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." To carry out this responsibility, the president presides over the executive branch of the federal government — a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, including 1 million active-duty military personnel. In addition, the president has important legislative and judicial powers.
Presidential executive powers
Within the executive branch itself, the president has broad powers to manage national affairs and the workings of the federal government. The president can issue rules, regulations, and instructions called executive orders, which have the binding force of law upon federal agencies but do not require congressional approval. As commander-in-chief of the armed forces of the United States, the president may also call into federal service the state units of the National Guard. In times of war or national emergency, the Congress may grant the president even broader powers to manage the national economy and protect the security of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
16th President
(1861-1865)The president nominates — and the Senate confirms — the heads of all executive departments and agencies, together with hundreds of other high-ranking federal officials. (See United States Cabinet, Executive Office of the President.) In 2003, more than 3000 executive agency positions were subject to presidential appointment, with more than 1200 requiring Senate approval. The large majority of federal workers, however, are selected through the Civil Service system, in which appointment and promotion are based on ability and experience.
The President is also responsible for preparing the budget of the United States, although the Congress must approve it. (See Office of Management and Budget)
Presidential legislative powers
Despite the constitutional provision that "all legislative powers" shall be vested in the Congress, the president, as the chief formulator of public policy, has a major legislative role. The president can veto any bill passed by Congress and, unless two-thirds of the members of each house vote to override the veto, the bill does not become law.
Much of the legislation dealt with by Congress is drafted at the initiative of the executive branch. In annual and special messages to Congress, the president may propose legislation he believes is necessary. The most important of these is the annual State of the Union Address traditionally given in January. Before a joint session of Congress, the President outlines the status of the country and his legislative proposals for the upcoming year. If Congress should adjourn without acting on those proposals, the president has the power to call it into special session. But beyond this official role, the president, as head of a political party and as principal executive officer of the U.S. government, is primarily in a position to influence public opinion and thereby to influence the course of legislation in Congress.
Theodore Roosevelt
26th President
(1901-1909)To improve their working relationships with Congress, presidents in recent years have set up a Congressional Liaison Office in the White House. Presidential aides keep abreast of all important legislative activities and try to persuade senators and representatives of both parties to support administration policies.
Presidential judicial powers
Among the president's constitutional powers is that of appointing important public officials. Presidential nomination of federal judges, including members of the Supreme Court, is subject to confirmation by the Senate. Another significant power is that of granting a full or conditional pardon to anyone convicted of breaking a federal law — except in a case of impeachment. The pardoning power has come to embrace the power to shorten prison terms and reduce fines.
Presidential powers in foreign affairs
Under the Constitution, the president is the federal official primarily responsible for the relations of the United States with foreign nations. The president appoints ambassadors, ministers, and consuls — subject to confirmation by the Senate — and receives foreign ambassadors and other public officials. With the secretary of state, the president manages all official contacts with foreign governments. On occasion, the president may personally participate in summit conferences where chiefs of state meet for direct consultation. Thus, President Woodrow Wilson headed the American delegation to the Paris conference at the end of World War I; President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with Allied leaders during World War II; and every president since then has sat down with world leaders to discuss economic and political issues and to reach bilateral and multilateral agreements.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President
(1933-1945)Through the Department of State, the president is responsible for the protection of Americans abroad and of foreign nationals in the United States. The president decides whether to recognize new nations and new governments, and negotiate treaties with other nations, which become binding on the United States when approved by two-thirds of the Senate. The president may also negotiate "executive agreements" with foreign powers that are not subject to Senate confirmation.
Constraints on Presidential power
Because of the vast array of presidential roles and responsibilities, coupled with a conspicuous presence on the national and international scene, political analysts have tended to place great emphasis on the president's powers. Some have even spoken of "the imperial presidency," referring to the expanded role of the office that Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained during his term.
One of the first sobering realities a new president discovers is an inherited bureaucratic structure that can be difficult to manage and slow to change direction. The president's power to appoint extends only to some 3,000 people out of a civilian government work force of about 3 million.
John F. Kennedy
35th President
(1961-1963)The president finds that the machinery of government (the civil service) often operates independently of presidential interventions, has done so through earlier administrations, and will continue to do so in the future. New presidents are immediately confronted with a backlog of decisions from the outgoing administration. They inherit a budget formulated and enacted into law long before they came to office, as well as major spending programs (such as veterans' benefits, Social Security payments, and Medicare health insurance for the elderly), which are mandated by law. In foreign affairs, presidents must conform with treaties and informal agreements negotiated by their predecessors in office.
As the happy euphoria of the post-election "honeymoon" dissipates, the new president discovers that Congress has become less cooperative and the media more critical. The president is forced to build at least temporary alliances among diverse, often antagonistic interests — economic, geographic, ethnic, and ideological. Compromises with Congress must be struck if any legislation is to be adopted. "It is very easy to defeat a bill in Congress," lamented President John F. Kennedy. "It is much more difficult to pass one."
Despite these constraints, every president achieves at least some of his legislative goals and prevents by veto the enactment of other laws he believes not to be in the nation's best interests. The president's authority in the conduct of war and peace, including the negotiation of treaties, is substantial. Moreover, the president can use his unique position to articulate ideas and advocate policies, which then have a better chance of entering the public consciousness than those held by his political rivals. President Theodore Roosevelt called this aspect of the presidency "the bully pulpit," for when a president raises an issue, it inevitably becomes subject to public debate. A president's power and influence may be limited, but they are also greater than those of any other American, in or out of office.
Though constrained by various other laws passed by Congress, the President's executive branch conducts most foreign policy, and his power to order and direct troops as commander-in-chief is quite significant. (The exact limits of what a President can do with the military without Congressional authorization are open to debate.)
Requirements to hold office
Article 2, Section 1, of the U.S. Constitution sets the requirements one must meet in order to become President:
- A natural-born citizen of the United States
- Thirty-five years of age
- Resident of the United States for 14 years.
Succession
There is a well-defined sequence of who should fill the Presidential office, upon the death, resignation, or removal from office (by impeachment and subsequent conviction) of a sitting President:
This list is only partial. See the entire United States Presidential line of succession. The Twenty-fifth Amendment was ratified to define how the President is deemed incapable of discharging his powers and duties and when the Vice President becomes Acting President.
- the Vice President of the United States
- the Speaker of the House of Representatives
- the President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
Presidents of the United States
- George Washington (1789-1797) (no political party)
- John Adams (1797-1801) Federalist
- Thomas Jefferson (1801-1809) Democratic-Republican
- James Madison (1809-1817) Democratic-Republican
- James Monroe (1817-1825) Democratic-Republican
- John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) Democratic-Republican
- Andrew Jackson (1829-1837) Democrat
- Martin Van Buren (1837-1841) Democrat
- William Henry Harrison (1841) Whig
- John Tyler (1841-1845) Whig (Democrat on Whig ticket)
- James Knox Polk (1845-1849) Democrat
- Zachary Taylor (1849-1850) Whig
- Millard Fillmore (1850-1853) Whig
- Franklin Pierce (1853-1857) Democrat
- James Buchanan (1857-1861) Democrat
- Abraham Lincoln (1861-1865) Republican
- Andrew Johnson (1865-1869) Republican (Democrat on Republican ticket)
- Ulysses Simpson Grant (1869-1877) Republican
- Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1877-1881) Republican
- James Abram Garfield (1881) Republican
- Chester Alan Arthur (1881-1885) Republican
- (Stephen) Grover Cleveland (1885-1889) Democrat
- Benjamin Harrison (1889-1893) Republican
- (Stephen) Grover Cleveland (1893-1897) Democrat (same as #22)
- William McKinley (1897-1901) Republican
- Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) Republican
- William Howard Taft (1909-1913) Republican
- (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) Democrat
- Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921-1923) Republican
- (John) Calvin Coolidge, Jr (1923-1929) Republican
- Herbert Clark Hoover (1929-1933) Republican
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) Democrat
- Harry S. Truman (1945-1953) Democrat
- Dwight David Eisenhower (1953-1961) Republican
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1961-1963) Democrat
- Lyndon Baines Johnson (1963-1969) Democrat
- Richard Milhous Nixon (1969-1974) Republican
- Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr (1974-1977) Republican
- James Earl 'Jimmy' Carter, Jr (1977-1981) Democrat
- Ronald Wilson Reagan (1981-1989) Republican
- George Herbert Walker Bush (1989-1993) Republican
- William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001) Democrat
- George Walker Bush (2001-present) Republican
Timeline
- John Tyler was the first president born after the American Revolution and was thus the first president who was not born as a subject of Britain.
- Millard Fillmore was the first president born in the 19th Century.
- Warren Harding was the first president born after the American Civil War
- John F. Kennedy was the first president born in the 20th Century.
- Jimmy Carter was the first president born after the First World War
- Bill Clinton was the first president born after the Second World War
Former Presidents
After a President leaves office, he continues to be referred to as "President" for the rest of his life. Former Presidents continue to be important national figures, and in some cases go on to successful post-presidential careers. Notable examples have included former President William Howard Taft's appointment as Chief Justice of the United States and former President Jimmy Carter's current career as a global human rights campaigner.
Currently, there are five living former presidents, which is a record number. They are:
Previously, there have been several occasions where there have been four former presidents simultaneously living.
- Former President Gerald Ford
- Former President Jimmy Carter
- Former President Ronald Reagan
- Former President George H. W. Bush
- Former President Bill Clinton
Presidential Pay History Date established Salary September 24, 1789 $25,000 March 3, 1873 $50,000 March 4, 1909 $75,000 January 19, 1949 $100,000 January 20, 1969 $200,000 January 20, 2001 $400,000 The first United States Congress voted to pay George Washington a salary of $25,000 a year, a significant sum in 1789. Washington, already a successful man, didn't take the money. Since 2001, the President has earned a salary of $400,000 a year, modest in comparison to the multi-million dollar salaries of most private-sector chief executive officers.
Traditionally, the President, as the most important official in the U.S. government, is to be the highest paid government employee. Consequently, the President's salary serves as a cap of sorts for all other federal officials such as the Chief Justice. The raise for 2001 was approved by Congress and President Bill Clinton in 1999 because other officials who receive annual cost-of-living increases had salaries approaching the President's. Thus, in order to raise the salaries of other federal employees, the President's salary had to be raised to avoid surpassing the President.
Modern Presidents enjoy many non-salary perks such as living and working in the spacious White House mansion in Washington, DC. While travelling, the President is able to conduct all the functions of the office aboard several specially-built Boeing 747s, which take the call-sign Air Force One when the President is aboard. The President travels around Washington in an armored Cadillac limousine, equipped with bullet-proof windows and tires and a self-contained ventilation system in the event of a biological attack. When traveling longer distances around the Washington area, the President travels aboard the Presidential helicopter, Marine One.
Additionally, the President has full use of Camp David in Maryland, a sprawling retreat occasionally used as a casual setting for hosting foreign dignitaries. At all times, the President and his family are protected by an extensive Secret Service detail.
Until the law was changed in 1997, all former Presidents and their family were protected by the Secret Service until their death. The last President to have Secret Service protection for life is Bill Clinton. George Walker Bush and all following Presidents will be protected by the Secret Service for a maximum of 10 years after leaving office.
Presidential facts
Four U.S. Presidents have been assassinated:
Four others died in office of natural causes:
- Abraham Lincoln in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth
- James Garfield in 1881 by Charles J. Guiteau (Guiteau shot him but Garfield arguably died due to subsequent incorrect medical care)
- William McKinley in 1901 by Leon Czolgosz
- John F. Kennedy in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald [1] although many theories posit additional gunmen. [1]
One President resigned from office:
- William Henry Harrison, died of pneumonia in 1841
- Zachary Taylor, died of "acute indigestion" in 1850
- Warren G. Harding, died of heart attack in 1923
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died of cerebral hemorrhage in 1945
Two Presidents have been impeached, though neither was subsequently convicted:
- Richard Nixon in 1974
Four Presidents have been elected without a plurality of popular votes:
- Andrew Johnson in 1868
- Bill Clinton in 1998
Two Presidents have been elected without a majority of electoral votes, and were chosen by the House of Representatives:
- John Quincy Adams - trailed Andrew Jackson by 44,804 votes in 1824
- Rutherford B. Hayes - trailed Samuel J. Tilden by 264,292 votes in 1876
- Benjamin Harrison - trailed Grover Cleveland 95,713 votes in 1888
- George W. Bush - trailed Al Gore by 540,520 votes in 2000
Five Presidents were not elected at all, although with the exception of Gerald Ford all were elected Vice President:
- Thomas Jefferson - finished with same number of electoral votes as Aaron Burr in 1800
- John Quincy Adams - trailed Andrew Jackson by 15 electoral votes in 1824
While most presidents have been of English descent, there have been a few who came from a different European background:
- John Tyler - Assumed the Presidency on the death of William Henry Harrison, did not run in 1844.
- Millard Fillmore - Succeeded Zachary Taylor, did not run in 1852.
- Andrew Johnson - Succeeded Abraham Lincoln, did not run in 1868.
- Chester A. Arthur - Succeeded James Garfield, did not run in 1884.
- Gerald Ford - Appointed Vice President on the resignation of Spiro Agnew, sworn in after Nixon's resignation and defeated in the election of 1976 by Jimmy Carter.
Kennedy was also America's first, and to date only Catholic president.
- Dutch: Martin Van Buren, Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt
- German: Herbert Hoover and Dwight Eisenhower
- Irish: William McKinley, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton
Presidential residences
The President's residence is the White House, but of course they have had other homes. This is a list of some of those homes:
- George Washington - Mount Vernon
- John Adams - Peacefield
- Thomas Jefferson - Monticello
- James Madison - Montpelier
- James Monroe - Ash Lawn
- Andrew Jackson - The Hermitage
- W. H. Harrison - Berkeley Plantation
- John Tyler - Sherwood Forest Plantation
- Martin Van Buren - Lindenwald
- James Buchanan - Wheatland
- Rutherford Hayes - Spiegel Grove
- Grover Cleveland - Westland Mansion
- Theodore Roosevelt - Sagamore Hill
- Woodrow Wilson - Shadow Lawn
- Calvin Coolidge - The Beeches
- Franklin Roosevelt - Springwood (located in Hyde Park, New York; see note at Hyde Park)
- John Kennedy - Hyannisport
- Richard Nixon - Casa Pacifica
- Ronald Reagan - Rancho Cielo
- George H. W. Bush - Walker's Point
- George W. Bush - Prairie Chapel Ranch
Presidents of the Continental Congress
Main article: President of the Continental CongressThere were six men who served as President of the Continental Congress prior to the ratification of the Articles of Confederation. These men held very few powers that are now associated with the U.S. presidency and cannot be considered to have been heads of state. Their primary duty was to preside over the Congress (hence the original meaning of "president").
Presidents of the United States in Congress Assembled
Main article: President of the United States in Congress AssembledThere were ten Presidents under the Articles of Confederation. These men held few powers that are now associated with the U.S. presidency and cannot be considered to have been heads of state or the "Chief Executive". These men were simply heads of government with Congress holding all executive powers.
Miscellaneous information
On a less serious note:
- David Rice Atchison
- Emperor Norton I (1859-1880)
- Tecumseh's curse
Related articles
- Presidential religious affiliations
- U.S. presidential election
- U.S. presidential primary
- U.S. Electoral College
External links
- Official White House website
- Internet Public Library: POTUS
- Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States
- The Masonic Presidents Tour - A listing and profiles of those Presidents who were members of the Freemasonry.
There is also a rock band called The Presidents of the United States of America.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "President of the United States."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| OFA | English | Office of Financial Analysis | N/A |
| OfA | French | Office de l'alimentation | Public Administration, Food & Agriculture |
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Synonyms: OfficeSynonyms: agency (n), authority (n), berth (n), bureau (n), business office (n), federal agency (n), function (n), government agency (n), office staff (n), part (n), place (n), position (n), post (n), power (n), role (n), situation (n), spot (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Agency | Noun: agency, operation, force, working, strain, function, office, maintenance, exercise, work, swing, play; interworking, interaction; procurement. |
Mart | Wharf; office, chambers, countinghouse, bureau; counter, compter. |
Receptacle | Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement. |
Workshop | Noun: workshop, workhouse, workplace, shop, place of business; manufactory, mill, plant, works, factory; cabinet, studio; office, branch office bureau, atelier. |
Worship | Divine service, office, duty; exercises; morning prayer; mass, matins, evensong, vespers; undernsong, tierce; holyday; (rites). |
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Screenplays | Fineyou clean and I'll go down and run your office! (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry) There's a tiny door in that empty office. It's a portal, Maxine (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman) Step into my office. (There's Something About Mary; writing credit: Ed Decter; John J. Strauss) Vice president Ford will be sworn into office at that hour in this office (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth) You're something with a French provincial office or a book full of clippings but you're not a woman (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) | |
Lyrics | Hangin up in the office in back of my house like trophies (Forgot About Dre; performing artist: Dr. dre) Bad! Like that student in the principal's office (Danger (Been So Long); performing artist: Mystikal) At The Office Where The Papers Grow She Takes A Break, (Another Day; performing artist: Paul McCartney) She walks to the office like everyone else (Modern Girl; performing artist: Sheena Easton) | |
Clever | A politician will find an excuse to get out of anything, except office. (references; author: unknown) 1968: Being called into the principal's office. 1998: Calling the principal's office. (references; author: unknown) You work for a defense contractor if you are on a first name basis at your local unemployment office. (references; author: unknown) Your brain is that bodily organ which starts working the moment you awake and does not stop until you get into the office. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hard Times at the Employment Office (1974) The Office Picnic (1973) Abachurina Post Office (1973) Sex and the Office Girl (1972) | |
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 | Pictured are two scientists conferring over a graph. They are in lab coats in an office setting. The new technology available to the scientists today plays an important role in providing them with needed detailed information. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | The office field investigation of cancer from Harvard became the first NCI staff. This photo was taken in the summer of 1937. See also ar003955. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | CDC spray equipment leaving the warehouse at a field office in Laredo, TX, for work in a flood area. Credit: CDC. |  | The Office of National Defense Malaria Control Activities, established in the offices of PHS, February 10, 1942, was renamed the Office of Malaria Control in War Areas, MCWA, April 27, 1942. Credit: CDC. |
 | Dr. Wernher von Braun in his Office. Credit: NASA. |  | NACA Langley Administrative Office. Credit: NASA. |
 | Polar bear swimming in Norwegian Sea Taken by cooperative observer with Norwegian Hydrographic Office. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Mapping the Ocean Floor Joint NOAA-USGS Exclusive Economic Zone Project Office NOAA responsible for multi-beam bathymetric mapping program. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Richard Bourgerie of the NOAA NOS CO-OPS office atop the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge on a glorious fall day. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Law office shingle - Either lawyer humor or an avid fisherman. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Office windows" by Obed Tewes Commentary: "Kind of abstract of a office building in perth." | "Office 5" by Stephen Mishler Commentary: "Here are some initial office shots." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Adlai E. Stevenson | Indeed there are some Republicans I would trust with anything -- anything, that is, except public office. |
Aesop | Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office. |
Henry Kissinger | The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself. |
Seneca | Not to return one good office for another is inhuman; but to return evil for good is diabolical. |
Silas Wright. | The office should seek the man, not man the office. |
Theodore Roosevelt | No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. |
Vice President Thomas Jefferson | The second office of this government is honorable & easy, the first is but a splendid misery. |
William Ellery Channing | The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves. |
William Shakespeare | Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | But since a rational creature cannot be supposed, when free, to put himself into subjection to another, for his own harm; (though, where he finds a good and wise ruler, he may not perhaps think it either necessary or useful to set precise bounds to his power in all things) prerogative can be nothing but the people's permitting their rulers to do several things, of their own free choice, where the law was silent, and sometimes too against the direct letter of the law, for the public good; and their acquiescing in it when so done: for as a good prince, who is mindful of the trust put into his hands, and careful of the good of his people, cannot have too much prerogative, that is, power to do good; so a weak and ill prince, who would claim that power which his predecessors exercised without the direction of the law, as a prerogative belonging to him by right of his office, which he may exercise at his pleasure, to make or promote an interest distinct from that of the public, gives the people an occasion to claim their right, and limit that power, which, whilst it was exercised for their good, they were content should be tacitly allowed. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 5: The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1994 | But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | The oath of office, too, imposed by the legislature, is completely demonstrative of the legislative opinion on this subject. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The period of office of the Members of the Governing Body will be three years. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | But he was early at the office next morning |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The accidents of my life have often afforded me this advantage, but never with more fulness and variety than during my continuance in office. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He comprehended this confusedly, but thoroughly, from the first words that Javert pronounced on entering his office. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | When it fell to him to read the lesson towards the close of the office he read it in a veiled voice, lulling his conscience to its music |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Over near the office the men still squatted and talked, and the shrill music came to them |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | This operator did his office after a different manner from those of his trade in Europe |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Office of Applied Sciences. (references) | |
Your first stop in the hospital will be the admitting office. (references) | ||
Blood is taken at the doctor's office through a finger stick. (references) | ||
Business | A copy may be obtained from this office. (references) | |
Establish a representative office in China. (references) | ||
Domestic office furniture demand is growing steadily. (references) | ||
Children | Ghana | The GNCC has provided the WAJU with office equipment. (references) |
Switzerland | Individuals who find pornographic material involving children are asked to contact the Federal Office via e-mail. (references) | |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | The Social Welfare Office is the government agency responsible for monitoring and protecting the welfare of children. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Bangladesh | The gang then ransacked the office of the newspaper. (references) |
Macau | This is handled by the Identification Services Office. (references) | |
Cyprus | These cases are referred to the local UNHCR office for evaluation. (references) | |
Discrimination | Argentina | The Association Against Homosexual Discrimination filed a complaint to the Office of the Human Rights Ombudsman in Cordoba regarding such treatment. (references) |
Brazil | In Sao Paulo in October, the country's first Homosexual Defender office began to function, funded in part by a grant from the federal Ministry of Justice. (references) | |
Zambia | These amendments also prohibit traditional chiefs, who are accorded authority and privileges as chiefs, from running for political office unless they resign their chieftainships. (references) | |
Economic History | Mali | The term of office is 5 years. (references) |
Panama | Moscoso took office on September 1, 1999. (references) | |
Burma | Agency: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury. (references) | |
Human Rights | Solomon Islands | The ICRC has an office in Honiara. (references) |
United Kingdom | In May a north London post office was bombed. (references) | |
Brazil | He was the fifth person to hold this office in 15 months. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Costa Rica | The Ombudsman has an office to investigate violations of the rights of indigenous people. (references) |
Mexico | The CNDH's office of the Fourth Inspector General reviews and investigates violations of indigenous rights. (references) | |
Mexico | On April 25, in response to a proposal made by the Governments of Mexico and Guatemala, the U.N. Human Rights Commission voted to establish the office of Special Rapporteur for the Protection of Indigenous Peoples and in July appointed Rodolfo Stavenhagen, a professor at the Colegio de Mexico's Center for Sociological Studies and former advisor to the EZLN during its negotiations with the Government. (references) | |
Minorities | Slovak Republic | The budget for the Plenipotentiary office was $625,000 (SK 30 million). (references) |
Yemen | Non-Muslims may vote, but they are prohibited from holding elective office. (references) | |
Hungary | There is 1 Roma lawyer out of a total of 11 lawyers in the Ombudsman's office. (references) | |
Political Economy | Maldives | Further terms in office also require confirmation by referendum. (references) |
Sudan | The new Parliament elected in December 2000 took office in February. (references) | |
Barbados | Each administration normally averages two consecutive terms in office. (references) | |
Political Rights | Argentina | There are 25 women in the Senate that took office in December. (references) |
Guyana | Voters indirectly elect the President to a 5-year term of office. (references) | |
Mexico | In some villages, women do not have the right to vote or to hold office. (references) | |
Trade | Bulgaria | BACB has an office in Sofia. (references) |
Bulgaria | BAEF has an office in Sofia. (references) | |
Bulgaria | The EBRD has an office in Sofia. (references) | |
Travel | Philippines | Observing office etiquette is also important. (references) |
Ireland | AT&T has a local office which can assist the U.S. visitor. (references) | |
Australia | Temporary office suites are available for short-term rental. (references) | |
Women | Australia | A federal government-funded Office of the Status of Women monitors women's rights. (references) |
India | The NHRC engaged in correspondence with the Chief Minister's office but has yet to receive a reply. (references) | |
Morocco | The stated goal was increased numbers of women who vote and who run for office through a two-phase training process. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Fiji | The ILO maintains an office in Suva. (references) |
Guatemala | The case is being investigated by the Special Prosecutor's Office. (references) | |
Colombia | The Inspector General's office alleged that Gomez had links to paramilitaries. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DEPUTY, n. A male relative of an office-holder, or of his bondsman. The deputy is commonly a beautiful young man, with a red necktie and an intricate system of cobwebs extending from his nose to his desk. When accidentally struck by the janitor's broom, he gives off a cloud of dust. "Chief Deputy," the Master cried, "To-day the books are to be tried By experts and accountants who Have been commissioned to go through Our office here, to see if we Have stolen injudiciously. Please have the proper entries made, The proper balances displayed, Conforming to the whole amount Of cash on hand -- which they will count. I've long admired your punctual way -- Here at the break and close of day, Confronting in your chair the crowd Of business men, whose voices loud And gestures violent you quell By some mysterious, calm spell -- Some magic lurking in your look That brings the noisiest to book And spreads a holy and profound Tranquillity o'er all around. So orderly all's done that they Who came to draw remain to pay. But now the time demands, at last, That you employ your genius vast In energies more active. Rise And shake the lightnings from your eyes; Inspire your underlings, and fling Your spirit into everything!" The Master's hand here dealt a whack Upon the Deputy's bent back, When straightway to the floor there fell A shrunken globe, a rattling shell A blackened, withered, eyeless head! The man had been a twelvemonth dead. Jamrach Holobom |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | For me, the Third World is any country where the soccer game is called on account of locusts, where even the people working in the unemployment office are on welfare. |
Erin Runnion | Right. Right. I will do whatever the sheriff's department, whatever the district attorney's office feels is best in order to get him to never be able to hurt anybody. |
Martha Stewart | People love that, you take this to the office, take one for everybody in your office and you give that and you say, I made those cookies. They'll go crazy over them, I guarantee it. |
Rush Limbaugh | The bottom line is, before Clinton came to office, Pakistan and India did not have nuclear weapons. |
Sarah Ferguson | Well, after the disaster, we were given offices by Credit Swiss First Boston, which was very kind, temporary offices. And then Michael Bloomberg has given us full time office space there in his office, which is very kind. |
Ted Koppel | I remember sitting in on a meeting in Rune's office and all kinds of names were coming up, crazy names. We all hated every name that came up. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | A numerous body repeatedly attacked the house of the inspector, seized his papers of office, and finally destroyed by fire his buildings and whatsoever they contained. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | However proper the limitation may be in relation to private citizens, it would seem that it ought not to commence running in favor of public officers until they go out of office. |
Ulysses S. Grant | 1869-1877 | My best efforts will be given in the same direction in the future, aided, I trust, by my four years' experience in the office. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Let every public servant know, whether his post is high or low, that a man's rank and reputation in this Administration will be determined by the size of the job he does, and not by the size of his staff, his office or his budget. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Yet, only in the White House can you finally know the full weight of this Office. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | After all, we became involved in the war while my predecessor was in office. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | This is the greatest regret that I have as I leave office. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | I established an Office of Families within HHS and sponsored the White House Conference on Families. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Our commitment to a Western Hemisphere safe from aggression did not occur by spontaneous generation on the day that we took office. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Six years ago, I came to office in a time of doubt for America, with our economy troubled, our deficit high, our people divided. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Office" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.62% of the time. "Office" is used about 25,657 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.62% | 25,560 | 327 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.37% | 95 | 33,629 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25,657 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Australia | AMP Office Trust | Greece | Sato Office Furniture Industry SA |
| New Zealand | AMP NZ Office Trust | United Kingdom | Total Office Group Plc |
| USA | Boise Cascade Office Products Corporation | ||
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "office": accepting office ♦ accession to office ♦ accountant's office ♦ advance booking office ♦ adviser's office ♦ aerodrome control reporting office ♦ aerodrome meteorological office ♦ aeronautical meteorological office ♦ air traffic services reporting office ♦ aliens office ♦ american express office ♦ apply at the office ♦ approach control office ♦ army post office ♦ assay office ♦ at the office ♦ attorney's office ♦ audit office ♦ automated office ♦ badge of office ♦ bank office ♦ be in office ♦ betting office ♦ booking office ♦ box office ♦ branch office ♦ branch office bureau ♦ bruising the base of cuttings RF office international de la vigne et du vin ♦ business office ♦ by right of office ♦ call office ♦ career office ♦ cashier's office ♦ Central Coordinating Office for Accessibility to Public Buildings for the Disabled ♦ central office ♦ central office equipment ♦ central office exchange service ♦ central office switch ♦ central office switching system ♦ Central Population Registers Office ♦ central post office ♦ Certified or Office ♦ chain of office ♦ Circumlocution office ♦ claim office ♦ clearing office ♦ company office ♦ compliance office ♦ comprehensive electronic office ♦ Crown office ♦ customs office ♦ dead letter office ♦ dean's office ♦ deans' office ♦ dial office ♦ dispatch office ♦ Distributing past office ♦ district office ♦ divine Office ♦ do one's office ♦ doctor's office ♦ doorman's office ♦ drawing office ♦ during his term of office ♦ editorial office ♦ eject from office ♦ elected Office ♦ elective office ♦ employment office ♦ enter upon office ♦ Erika Claims Handling Office ♦ ESPRIT Proposals Office ♦ European Community Humanitarian Office ♦ European Patent Office on Line ♦ European Radiocommunications Office ♦ European Telecommunications Office ♦ exchange office ♦ excise office ♦ execution office ♦ Express office ♦ F office international de la vigne et du vin ♦ federal office ♦ fill an office ♦ Fire office ♦ first office application ♦ foreign exchange office ♦ foreign office ♦ forwarding office ♦ freight office ♦ french foreign office ♦ general post office ♦ go out of office ♦ go to the post office ♦ goods office ♦ government office ♦ Hanaper office ♦ harbor master's office ♦ harbour master's office ♦ harbour office ♦ head office ♦ head office of the company. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "office": office-approved, office-automation, office-backed, office-based, office-bearer, office-bearers, office-block, office-blocks, office-bound, office-boy, office-cosla, office-cum, office-cum-shop, office-cum-spare, office-equipment, Office-found, office-from-office, office-funded, office-holder, office-holders, office-holding, office-hours, office-houses, office-hunter, office-keepers, office-led, office-like, Office-manager, office-party, office-political, office-speak, office-sponsored, office-staff, office-studios, office-supply, office-trained, office-vacancy, office-wallah, office-work, office-worker, office-workers. | |
Ending with "office": back-office, box-office, head-office, inter-office, post-office. | |
Containing "office": bills-and-office-lunch, box-office hit, cross-office switching, land-office business, post-office box, post-office box number, post-office department. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
office depot | 21,562 | unemployment office | 999 |
office max | 13,895 | office humor | 951 |
post office | 6,754 | office team | 948 |
us post office | 6,324 | office sex | 933 |
office | 5,654 | staple office supply | 892 |
office furniture | 5,551 | microsoft office xp | 797 |
office supply | 4,810 | office equipment | 784 |
united state post office | 4,018 | office party | 764 |
box office | 3,545 | office 2000 | 740 |
microsoft office | 2,671 | office of personnel management | 732 |
social security office | 1,865 | used office furniture | 691 |
office xp | 1,607 | passport office | 672 |
home office furniture | 1,589 | office desk | 664 |
home office | 1,517 | office depot coupon | 630 |
office space | 1,334 | open office | 607 |
office product | 1,301 | movie box office | 599 |
office chair | 1,236 | box mojo office | 596 |
us patent office | 1,150 | office depot.com | 594 |
star office | 1,030 | microsoft office 2000 | 583 |
medical office | 1,013 | virtual office | 571 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "office"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | kantoor (bureau), buro (bureau), amp (function, job, post). (various references) | |
Albanian | ofiq (appointment, duty, handle, nickname, post), zyrë (bureau, department, work), shenjë (accent, aim, auspice, Beck, brand, butt, cue, denotation, denotement, earmark, ensign, evidence, exponent, fleck, foretoken, impress, index, indication, insignia, Mark, marking, obelisk, obelus, omen, pledge, pointer, portent, presage, prognostication, scratch, seal, sign, signal, stamp, symbol, symptom, tally, target, token, vestige, Wale, weal), shërbim (maintenance, ministration, mission, service, serving, waiting), shërbesë (ministration, ministry), punë (affair, affairs, appointment, avocation, berth, business, concern, concernment, deed, doing, duty, employ, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, make, making, metier, movement, occupation, operation, practice, question, service, shebang, slot, task, task-work, thing, work), post (position, post, rank), nëpunësi (employ, employment, place, post, white collar), ministri (commissariat, department, ministry), meshë (mass, wafer), drejtori (board, direction, directorate, directory, management), detyrë (assignation, assignment, burden, business, chore, devoir, duty, exercise, job, labor, labour, mission, obligation, ought, place, project, seal, task, task-work, tie, trust). (various references) | |
Arabic | منصب (rank), مكتب الموظف, مكتب (bureau, desk, lodge, study, writing desk), مهمة (assignment, business, charge, commission, designation, duty, errand, function, job, mission, place, stint, task, undertaking, work), منصب (appointment, charge, inaugurated, installed, job, nominated, position, post, tenure), مقر (own, residence, seat), مساعي حميدة, مركز (center, center on, centered, centralize, centre, centre on, concentrated, fastened, fixed, focus, funnel, localise, locality, localize, location, position, post, seat, settled, site, situation, spot, station), وزارة (department, ministry, portfolio), واجب (assignment, charge, duty, imperative, must, obligation, onus, ought, task, trust), وظيفة (berth, billet, capacity, frame, function, job, khanate, metier, place, position, role, service), حكومة (government, polity, regimen), عيادة (clinic, practice, sickbay), شعيرة طقس ديني, ديوان (bureau, chamber, divan). (various references) | |
Asturian | oficina. (various references) | |
Basque | posta (post office). (various references) | |
Bemba | ofeshi (office building). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | намек (allusion, cue, dig, feeler, half word, hint, indirection, inkling, insinuation, intimation, pointer, side glance, suggestion, tip off, wink), дълг (credit, debt, devoir, duty, indebtedness, liability, part, score, trust), пост (assignment, billet, guard, position, post, quarter, room, sentry, station), предупреждение (admonition, caution, monition, notice, premonition, warning), бюро (agency, board, bureau, desk, service, writing desk), лекарски кабинет (consulting room), задължение (bond, call, char, charge, commitment, committal, duty, engagement, guaranty, job, liability, obligation, onus, place, recognizance, responsibility, tie), длъжност (appointment, place, position, post, situation), министерство (board, department, ministry), услуга (benignity, favour, kindness, service, turn), обред (ceremonial, ceremony, exercise, observance, ordinance, rite, ritual), офис, клон (affiliate, branch, filiation, province, ramus, sector), кантора (counting house, counting room, shop), канцелария, служба (body, duty, employment, function, job, place, position, post, room, service, situation), управление (administration, bureau, charge, control, direction, directorate, governance, government, guidance, headquarters, helm, management, operation, regimen, regiment, rule, superintendence), зъболекарски кабинет. (various references) | |
Cebuano | opisina. (various references) | |
Chamorro | ofisina. (various references) | |
Chinese | 處 (a place, bureau, deal with, department, get along with, location, point, respect, spot, to be in, to be in a position of, to dwell, to live, to reside, to stay), 隊部 (headquarters), 辦事處 (agency), 辦公室 , 職位 (position, post), 職 (duty), 衙 (yamen), 署 (bureau), 办公室, 廳 (hall), 任 (responsibility, to appoint, to assign), 廨 , 局 (set or round office, situation). (various references) | |
Cornish | sothva. (various references) | |
Czech | kancelář (agency, bureau, room), úřad (position). (various references) | |
Danish | kontor (bureau), embede (function, job, post). (various references) | |
Dutch | kantoor (bureau). (various references) | |
Esperanto | ofico (function, job, post), oficejo (bureau), kontoro. (various references) | |
Faeroese | skrivstova (bureau). (various references) | |
Farsi | مقام (Capacity, Dignity, Eminence, Function, Order, Pew, Portfolio, Post, Rank, Station, Stature, Status, Title), محل کار, مسلولیت (Charge, Liability, Onus, Peril, Post, Responsibility, Trust), کار (Act, Activity, Affair, Appointment, Avocation, Deed, Duty, Fist, Function, Job, Opus, Ploy, Proposition, Service, Shebang, Task, Thing, Vocation, Work, Workmanship), وظیفه (Assignment, Duty, Function, Incumbency, Obligation, Role, Service, Task, Taskwork, Work), خدمت (Attendance, Duty, Service), احرازمقام , اشتغال (Busybody, Engagement, Preoccupation), اداره (Bureau, Helm, Management, Operation, Steerage), شغل (Employ, Job, Metier, Occupation, Position, Post, Profession, Situation, Trade, Vocation, Work), دفترکار. (various references) | |
Finnish | virka (function, job, post), virasto (civil service department). (various references) | |
French | bureau (office desk), fonction, service, office, emploi, charge (base of active ingredient). (various references) | |
Frisian | kantoar (bureau). (various references) | |
German | Amt (authority, bureau, charge, department, duty, exchange, function, job, post, task, trunk), Kontor (counting house), Büro (bureau, room), geschäftsstelle (agency, department), abteilung (branch, compartment, department, departmental, detachment, division, ordnance survey, partition, pigeonhole, section, separation, speciality, unit). (various references) | |
Greek | γραφείο (bureau, desk, drawing-room, escritoire, secretary, study, writing desk). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משרה (appointment, dominion, job, position, post, situation, spot), משרדי (clerical, desk), משרד (bureau, ministry), לשכה (bureau, cabinet, cell, chamber, compartment), שרד (service). (various references) | |
Hungarian | iroda (agency, bureau, bureaux, chambers, shop), hivatal (bureau, bureaux, charge, position, shop, station). (various references) | |
Icelandic | pósthús (post office). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kas (cash), kantor, biro (bureau), balai (house, public building, public hall). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | titiraqvik. (various references) | |
Irish | oifig. (various references) | |
Italian | ufficio (agency, building, bureau, curacy, department, duty, function), impiego (application, berth, employ, employment, exertion, function, investment, job, occupation, place, position, post, situation, use), funzione (capacity, derivative, employment, function, job, operation, position, post, role, service, task, working). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 職掌 (function, official duties), 詰め所 (guardroom, station), 執務室 , 事業所 (enterprise place, plant), 事務所 , 事務所 , 事務室 , 取り扱い所 (agency), 倚子 (chair, couch, position, seat), 任務 (duty, function, mission, task), オクタン価 (enthusiast, fantasy object for masturbation, geek, honor, love affair with colleague, masturbation, nerd, Occam, ocean space explorer, Oceania, octane value, octet, odometer, of course, off, off the record, offence, offense, offer, office automation, office computer, office girl, office lady, office wife, officer, official, official handicap, official record, off-season, offshore, offshore center, offshore fund, off-side, Ohio, Oklahoma, okra, OL, onanism, onion, onomatopoeia, onyx, opal, opinion, opinion leader, orchestra, Oscar, oscillograph, oscilloscope, Oslo, osmium, OSPER, ostracism, ostrich, ostrich policy, Othello, Ottawa, Oxford, oxtail, ozone, ozone hole, respectable person). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しつむしつ, しょくしょう (be fed up, function, official duties), つめしょ (guardroom, station), にんむ (duty, function, mission, task), いし (chair, couch, death by hanging, doctor, dying wish, having a person under one's control, intention, physician, position, posthumous child, purpose, ruins, seat, stone, volition, will), オフィス , じぎょうしょ (enterprise place, plant), じむしつ, じむしょ, とりあつかいじょ (agency). (various references) | |
Kongo | posta (post office). (various references) | |
Korean | 집무실. (various references) | |
Lombard | uffici (bureau). (various references) | |
Luganda | posita (post office). (various references) | |
Macedonian | kancelarija. (various references) | |
Manx | shirveish (attendance, church service, employ, officiate, serve, service, serving, servitude, subserve), shamyr chleree, oik (board, bureau, post), offish. (various references) | |
Maori | tari. (various references) | |
Norwegian | kontor (bureau). (various references) | |
Occitan | pòsta (post office), corrièr (post office). (various references) | |
Papiamen | ofisina (bureau), puesto (function, job, post), kantor (bureau). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | officeay.(various references) | |
Polish | urząd (bureau), biuro (bureau). (various references) | |
Portuguese | escritório (bureau, cabinet, chamber, closet, counting house, counting-room, desk, shop, writing desk, writing-desk). (various references) | |
Portuguese Brazilian | escritório. (various references) | |
Provencal | burèu. (various references) | |
Romanian | oficiu (agency, assistance, bureau, door, function, help, pantry), funcţie (appointment, character, destination, function, job, position, post, role, service), ajutor (abettor, accommodation, accomplice, adjoint, adjunct, adjutancy, adjutant, adjuvant, adminicle, aid, ancillary, assistance, assistant, auxiliary, backer, backing, collaboration, contribution, co-operation, deputy, easement, fire, friend, furtherance, help, helper, helpfulness, helping, mate, means, ministrant, redress, refuge, relief, remedy, rescue, salvation, saver, second, service, sos, staff, stand by, stead, succor, succour, support, supporter, sustainer, upholder), birou (bureau, cabinet, chamber, chambers, davenport, desk, library, studio, study, writing desk, writing table, writing-desk), breviar (breviary, summary, vade mecum), cabinet (cabinet, chamber, closet, government, parlor, parlour, study), cancelarie (orderly room), datorie (assignment, bond, business, credit, debt, due, duty, indebtedness, obligation, part, responsibility), îndatorire (duty, indebtedness, liability, obligation, part), dependinţe (enlargement, fixture, outbuildings), slujbã (berth, celebration, duty, employ, employment, post, service, situation, spot, work), gest (Beck, gest, gesticulation, gesture, motion, movement, wave), minister (board, department, government, ministry), post (appointment, berth, billet, job, position, post, station), semn (auspice, badge, Beck, brand, character, denotation, dint, emblem, evidence, Favor, favour, gesture, impress, index, indication, Mark, note, portent, print, property, scar, score, scratch, seal, sign, signal, splash, spot, symbol, symptom, token, trace, track, vestige, wave), serviciu (attendance, berth, department, employ, employment, Favor, favour, job, ministration, ministry, position, service, situation, turn), serviciu divin (celebration, church service, liturgy, service), departament (department, ministry). (various references) | |
Romansch | uffizi postal (post office). (various references) | |
Russian | управление (administration, conduct, control, control of, direction, governance, government, guidance, handling, management, operation, run, steerage, steering, stewardship, superintendence), служба (employ, employment, job, service), контора (bureau, counting house, counting room), канцелярия (chancellery), ведомство (department), офис офисный, офис, обязанность (charge, duty, obligation, ought, responsibilities), министерство (administration, department, ministry), пост (fast, post), должность (function, job title, place, position, post, secretaryship). (various references) | |
Samoan | ofisa. (various references) | |
Scottish | dreuchd (duties, employment, vocation), òifig. (various references) | |
Sepedi | posong (post office). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ordinacija (consulting room, ordination), zavod (bureau, home, institute), služba (church service, employment, job, offices, service, servitude), poslovnica, položaj (billet, incumbency, job, lie, location, position, racket, site, situation, slot, standing, station, whereabouts), ministarstvo (department, government, ministry), kancelarija (chancellery, chancellory, counting house), dužnost (duty, incumbency, obligation, part, post, trust), biro (bureau). (various references) | |
Spanish | oficina (bureau, business office, lieu, shop), oficio (career, career office, craft, enterprise, function, handicraft, job, mass, metier, occupation, pantry, place, position, post, profession, role, service, skill, trade, walks of life), cargo (accusal, accusation, appointment, care, charge, complaint, function, indictment, job, load, position, post, trust, weight), función (abbacy, draw, entertainment, feature, function, job, occasion, performance, post, show, stand). (various references) | |
Sranan | kantoro (bureau). (various references) | |
Swahili | afisi (bureau). (various references) | |
Swedish | kontor (bureau, offices), byrå (agency, bureau, chest of drawers, division), ämbete (appointment, function, job, post, tenure), tjänst (appointment, duty, employment, Favor, favour, service, situation). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่ขายตั๋วภาพยนตร์หรือละคร (box office). (various references) | |
Tswana | poso (post office). (various references) | |
Turkish | büro (bureau, chamber, clerical, desk). (various references) | |
Turkmen | tipografiяa, edara (institution). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відомство (department), перебування на посаді (tenure), повинність (obligation, obligement), послуга (accommodation, favour, kindness, turn), посада (appointment, assignment, berth, billet, capacity, incumbency, place, position, post, seat, work), пост (post), бюро (bureau, pool, writing desk), знак (dagger, denotation, denotement, designation, icon, ikon, index, note, omen, point, seal, sign, signal, token, warning), міністерство (administration, ministry), міністерський (cabinet, ministerial), місце (appointment, lieu, place, placing, point, position, room, seat, situation, spot, station), натяк (allusion, cue, hint, intimation, shadow, smell, suggestion, suspicion, telltale, tip, whisper), обов'язок (business, devoir, duty, incumbency, obligation, obligement, onus, responsibility, task, tie), перебування при владі, відомості (data, low down), управління (administration, agency, authority, control, department, dispensation, disposal, governance, gubernation, guidance, leadership, leading, management, ordering, presidence, regimen, regiment, ruling, steerage, stewardship, superintendence), клерки, кабінет (cabinet, closet), канцелярія (bureau, chancellery), канцелярський (clerical, white collar), контора, конторський, функція (duty, function), церковна служба (celebration, ministering, ordo), релігійний обряд, служба (corps, department, job, service), службовий (ancillary, ministerial, official, on duty, service), службовці установ, відділ (apartment, bureau, department, partition, section). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | văn phòng, sở (agency, department, service), phòng giấy chi nhánh, kính lễ truy điệu cơ quan, hiệu toà án tôn giáo, chái. (various references) | |
Welsh | swyddfa (bureau). (various references) | |
Zulu | ilihhovisi (bureau), ihhovisi (bureau). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | 1. me, nam. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | apostolatum, apostolatus, cathedra, cathedram, cathedras, cathedris, dignitas, dignitate, dignitatem, dignitates, dignitatis, episcopatum, magistratibus, magistratum, magistratus, magistratuum, ministeria, ministerii, ministeriis, ministerio, ministeriorum, ministerium, munera, munere, muneribus, muneris, munerum, munus, munus, muneris, officia, officii, officiis, officio, officium, provincia, provinciae, provinciam, provinciarum, provincias, provinciis. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | had. (various references) |
| French | 1500-Modern | bureau. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 8 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Egeneto de en tw ierateuein auton en th taxei thV efhmeriaV autou enanti tou qeou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Factum est autem cum sacerdotio fungeretur in ordine vicis suae ante Deum |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | Soðlice wæs geworden þa zacharias his sacerdhades breac on hys gewrixles endebyrdnesse beforan gode: |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And it bifel, that whanne Zacarie schulde do the office of preesthod, in the ordre of his cours tofor God, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And it cam to passe as he executed the prestes office before god as his course came |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order of his course, |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And it came to pass, that, while he executed the priests' office before God in the order of his course, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Now it came about that in his turn he was acting as priest before God, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Luke Chapter 1, Verse 8 |
| Cebuano | Ug samtang si Zacarias ingon nga sacerdote nag-alagad sa atubangan sa Dios, sa diha nga maoy nag-atiman ang iyang laray |
| Chinese | 撒 迦 利 亞 按 班 次 、 在 神 面 前 供 祭 司 的 職 分 、 |
| Croatian | Dok je Zaharija jednom po redu svoga razreda obavljao sveæenièku službu pred Bogom, |
| Danish | Men det skete, medens han efter sit Skiftes Orden gjorde Præstetjeneste for Gud, |
| Dutch | En het geschiedde, dat, als hij het priesterambt bediende voor God, in de beurt zijner dagorde. |
| Finnish | Niin tapahtui, kun hänen osastonsa palvelusvuoro tuli ja hän toimitti papillisia tehtäviä Jumalan edessä, |
| French | Or, pendant qu`il s`acquittait de ses fonctions devant Dieu, selon le tour de sa classe, il fut appelé par le sort, |
| German | Und es begab sich, da er des Priesteramtes pflegte vor Gott zur Zeit seiner Ordnung, |
| Haitian Creole | Yon jou, Zakari te desèvis kou prèt devan Bondye, paske se te tou gwoup pa l' la. |
| Hungarian | Lõn pedig, hogy mikor õ rendjének sorában papi szolgálatot végzett az Isten elõtt, |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pada suatu hari, waktu golongan Abia mendapat giliran, Zakharia menjalankan tugas sebagai imam di hadapan Allah. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka berlakulah tatkala ia memegang pekerjaan imam di hadapan Allah menurut peraturan gilirannya, |
| Italian | Mentre Zaccaria officiava davanti al Signore nel turno della sua classe, |
| Manx Gaelic | As haink eh gy-kione, choud as v'eh cooilleeney oik y taggyrt kiongoyrt rish Jee, myr va e choorse er jeet magh, |
| Maori | Na tupono tonu, i a ia e mahi ana i a te tohunga mahi i te aroaro o te Atua i te takanga o tana wiki, |
| Norwegian | Men det skjedde mens han gjorde prestetjeneste for Gud, da raden var kommet til hans skifte, |
| Portuguese | Ora, estando ele a exercer as funções sacerdotais perante Deus, na ordem da sua turma, |
| Rumanian | Dar, pe cknd slujea Zaharia knaintea lui Dumnezeu, la rkndul cetei lui, |
| Shuar | |
| Swahili | Siku moja, ilipokuwa zamu yake ya kutoa huduma ya ukuhani mbele ya Mungu, |
| Swedish | Medan han nu en gång, när ordningen kom till hans avdelning, gjorde prästerlig tjänst inför Gud, |
| Uma | Hangkani, megoli-mi tempo-na imam-imam muli Abia to mpokamu bago Alata'ala, pai' Zakharia mpobago bago imam hi Tomi Alata'ala. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "office": officeholder, officeholders, officer, officered, officering, officers, offices. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "office": interoffice. (additional references) | |
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"Office" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: affic, coeffic, effnick, offace, offemce, offi, officeful, ofice, ofire, Ofisi, orfice, soffice, Uficyp. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "office" (pronounced ô"fus) |
| 4 | ô" f u s | interoffice. |
| 3 | -f u s | amorphous, edifice, preface, resurface, snafus, subsurface, surface, typhus. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: coiffe. | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-f-i-o" | |
-2 letters: coff, coif, fice, fico, fief, fife, foci. | |
-3 letters: eff, fie, foe, ice, iff, off. | |
-4 letters: ef, if, oe, of. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-f-f-i-o" | |
+1 letter: coiffed, coiffes, officer, offices. | |
+2 letters: coffined, coiffeur, coiffure, officers. | |
+3 letters: affection, coffering, coiffeurs, coiffeuse, coiffured, coiffures, officered, officiate. | |
+4 letters: affections, chiffonade, chiffonier, chifforobe, coiffeuses, officering, officiated, officiates, uncoffined. | |
+5 letters: affectation, affectional, affectioned, chiffonades, chiffoniers, chifforobes, coefficient, efficacious, interoffice, officialese, officiaries, suffocative. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Spoken 14. Quotations: Speeches 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Bible Trace 22. Abbreviations 23. Acronyms 24. Derivations | 25. Rhymes 26. Anagrams 27. Bibliography |
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