Office vs Associate - What's the difference?
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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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, title= 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.
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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).
Joined with another or others and having equal or nearly equal status.
Having partial status or privileges.
Following or accompanying; concomitant.
(biology, dated) Connected by habit or sympathy.
A person united with another or others in an act, enterprise, or business; a partner or colleague.
A companion; a comrade.
One that habitually accompanies or is associated with another; an attendant circumstance.
A member of an institution or society who is granted only partial status or privileges.
(lb) To join in or form a league, union, or association.
(lb) To spend time socially; keep company.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
(lb) To join as a partner, ally, or friend.
(lb) To connect or join together; combine.
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(lb) To connect evidentially, or in the mind or imagination.
*(rfdate) (John Keats) (1795-1821)
*:I always somehow associate Chatterton with autumn.
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*:He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language.
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(lb) To be associative.
To accompany; to keep company with.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:Friends should associate friends in grief and woe.
As nouns the difference between office and associate
is that office is a building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed while associate is (slang) an associate's degree.office
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Noun
(en noun)Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah 1981
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* 1000 English basic words ----associate
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Adjective
(-)- He is an associate editor.
- He is an associate member of the club.
- associate motions: those that occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions
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(associat)Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident.}}
