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say it: AW-fis
office is a noun meaning "place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed". It is pronounced /ˈɔfɪs/ — AW-fis. It carries 7 recorded senses.
place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
“he rented an office in the new building”
an administrative unit of government
“the Central Intelligence Agency”
“the Census Bureau”
“Office of Management and Budget”
“Tennessee Valley Authority”
(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 office”
“during his first year in power”
“the power of the president”
government
professional or clerical workers in an office
“the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard”
a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
“the offices of the mass”
a job in an organization
“he occupied a post in the treasury”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for office come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.