office
/ˈɔ.fɪs/ verb C2- To provide (someone) with an office.
- To have an office.
He/she/it offices · Past officed · Past participle officed · -ing form officing
Verb forms
- Base form
- office
- He/she/it
- offices
- Past
- officed
- Past participle
- officed
- -ing form
- officing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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In the present state of Siam it is most awkward that I should be away from the office.
Napoleon would, doubtless, have deprived Villefort of his office had it not been for Noirtier, who was all powerful at court, and thus the Girondin of ’93 and the Senator of 1806 protected him who so lately had been his protector.
The king’s procureur alone was deprived of his office, being suspected of royalism.
Sherlock Holmes led me to the nearest telegraph office, whence he dispatched a long telegram.
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