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Office Definition–noun | 1. | a room, set of rooms, or building where the business of a commercial or industrial organization or of a professional person is conducted: the main office of an insurance company; a doctor's office. |
| 2. | a room assigned to a specific person or a group of persons in a commercial or industrial organization: Her office is next to mine. |
| 3. | a business or professional organization: He went to work in an architect's office. |
| 4. | the staff or designated part of a staff at a commercial or industrial organization: The whole office was at his wedding. |
| 5. | a position of duty, trust, or authority, esp. in the government, a corporation, a society, or the like: She was elected twice to the office of president. |
| 6. | employment or position as an official: to seek office. |
| 7. | the duty, function, or part of a particular person or agency: to act in the office of adviser. |
| 8. | (initial capital letter ) an operating agency or division of certain departments of the U.S. Government: Office of Community Services. |
| 9. | (initial capital letter ) British. a major administrative unit or department of the national government: the Foreign Office. |
| 10. | Slang. hint, signal, or warning; high sign. |
| 11. | Often, offices. something, whether good or bad, done or said for or to another: He obtained a position through the offices of a friend. |
| 12. | Ecclesiastical. | a. | the prescribed order or form for a service of the church or for devotional use. |
| b. | the services so prescribed. |
| c. | Also called divine office. the prayers, readings from Scripture, and psalms that must be recited every day by all who are in major orders. |
| d. | a ceremony or rite, esp. for the dead. |
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| 13. | a service or task to be performed; assignment; chore: little domestic offices. |
| 14. | offices, Chiefly British. | a. | the parts of a house, as the kitchen, pantry, or laundry, devoted
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| b. | the stables, barns, cowhouses, etc., of a farm. |
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Furniture Definition–noun | 1. | the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like. |
| 2. | fittings, apparatus, or necessary accessories for something. |
| 3. | equipment for streets and other public areas, as lighting standards, signs, benches, or litter bins. |
| 4. | Also called bearer, dead metal. Printing. pieces of wood or metal, less than type high, set in and about pages of type to fill them out and hold the type in place in a chase. |
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Supply Definition–verb (used with object) | 1. | to furnish or provide (a person, establishment, place, etc.) with what is lacking or requisite: to supply someone clothing; to supply a community with electricity. |
| 2. | to furnish or provide (something wanting or requisite): to supply electricity to a community. |
| 3. | to make up, compensate for, or satisfy (a deficiency, loss, need, etc.): The TVA supplied the need for cheap electricity. |
| 4. | to fill or occupy as a substitute, as a vacancy, a pulpit, etc.: During the summer local clergymen will supply the pulpit. |
–verb (used without object) | 5. | to fill the place of another, esp. the pulpit of a church, temporarily or as a substitute: Who will supply until the new minister arrives? |
–noun | 6. | the act of supplying, furnishing, providing, satisfying, etc.: to begin the supply of household help. |
| 7. | something that is supplied: The storm cut off our water supply. |
| 8. | a quantity of something on hand or available, as for use; a stock or store: Did you see our new supply of shirts? |
| 9. | Usually, supplies. a provision, stock, or store of food or other things necessary for maintenance: to lay in supplies for the winter. |
| 10. | Economics. the quantity of a commodity that is in the market and available for purchase or that is available for purchase at a particular price. |
| 11. | supplies, Military. | a. | all items necessary for the equipment, maintenance, and operation of a military command, including food, clothing, arms, ammunition, fuel, materials, and machinery. |
| b. | procurement, distribution, maintenance, and salvage of supplies. |
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| 12. | a person who fills a vacancy or takes the place of another, esp. temporarily. |
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