Noun

(agencies)

The capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power; action or activity; operation.

The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. --Woodward.

A person or thing through which power is exerted or an end is achieved: instrumentality, means.

The office or function of an agent; also, the relationship between a principal and that person's agent.

An establishment engaged in doing business for another; also, the place of business or the district of such an agency.

A department or other administrative unit of a government; also, the office or headquarters of, or the district administered by such unit of government.

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Central Intelligence Agency

Noun

(en noun)

A building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed.

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*:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office , under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.

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A bureau, an administrative unit of government.

A position of responsibility of some authority within an organisation.

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A charge or trust; a function.

*(Bible), (w) xi. 13

*:Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office .

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Hesperus, whose office is to bring / Twilight upon the earth.

*(Isaac Newton) (1642-1727)

*:In this experiment the several intervals of the teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.

Rite, ceremonial observance of social or religious nature.

Religious service, especially a liturgy officiated by a Christian priest or minister.

*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

*:This morning was read in the church, after the office was done, the declaration setting forth the late conspiracy against the king's person.

A major administrative division, notably in certain governmental administrations, either at ministry level (e.g. the British Home Office) or within or dependent on such a department.

(lb) That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from human relations.

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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:I would I could do a good office between you.

*Doctrine and Covenants 25: 5 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah 1981

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*1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice) , Modern Library Edition (1995), p.144

*:there I readily engaged in the office of pointing out to my friend the certain evils of such a choice.

(lb) The parts of a house given over to household work, storage etc.

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:As for the offices , let them stand at distance.

*1887 , Sir (Arthur Conan Doyle), (A Study in Scarlet) , III:

*:A short passage, bare planked and dusty, led to the kitchen and offices .

An office suite; a collection of work?related computer programs (shortened from several such suites with 'office' in their name).