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Meaning:

Noun:

  • A building or room where clerical or professional duties are performed.
  • A bureau, an administrative unit of government.
  • A position of responsibility of some authority within an organisation.
  • ''(?good offices?)'' Mediation or help in resolving a dispute.
  • 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
  • obsolete a task that one feels obliged to do
  • religious service, especially a liturgy officiated by a Christian priest or minister
  • rite, ceremonial observance of social or religious nature

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