A Day at the Office

Define the Word

• Office

Office

• 1a : a special duty, charge, or position conferred by an exercise of governmental authority and for a public purpose : a position of authority to exercise a public function and to receive whatever emoluments may belong to it

b : a position of responsibility or some degree of executive authority

• 2: a prescribed form or service of worship; 
• 3: a religious or social ceremonial observance : rite
• 4a : something that one ought to do or must do : an assigned or assumed duty, task, or role

b : the proper or customary action of something : function

c : something done for another : service

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• 5: a place where a particular kind of business is transacted or a service is supplied:
• 6offices plural, chiefly British : the apartments, attached buildings, or outhouses in which the activities attached to the service of a house are carried on
• 7a : a major administrative unit in some governments British Foreign Office

b : a subdivision of some government departments Patent Office

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Gov’t Office

Iago, I.iii.377-379 – Which Definition?

I hate the Moor,

And it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets

H’as done my office.

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Montano, II.iii.217-219

• If partially affined, or leagued in office,�Thou dost deliver more or less than truth,�Thou art no soldier.

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Iago, III.iii.370-375

• O grace! O heaven forgive me!�Are you a man? have you a soul or sense?�God be wi' you; take mine office. O wretched fool.�That livest to make thine honesty a vice!�O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,�To be direct and honest is not safe.

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Iago, III.iii.407-410

• I do not like the office:�But, sith I am enter'd in this cause so far,�Prick'd to't by foolish honesty and love,�I will go on.

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Cassio, III.iv.110-114

• Madam, my former suit: I do beseech you�That by your virtuous means I may again�Exist, and be a member of his love�Whom I with all the office of my heart�Entirely honour: I would not be delay'd.

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Othello, IV.ii.89-93

• You, mistress,�That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,�And keep the gate of hell!
• You, you, ay, you!�We have done our course; there's money for your pains:�I pray you, turn the key and keep our counsel.

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Emilia, IV.ii.129-132

• I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain,�Some busy and insinuating rogue,�Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,�Have not devised this slander; I'll be hang'd else.

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