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. | | | 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 mainly to household work. | | b. | the stables, barns, cowhouses, etc., of a farm. | | |
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Humor Definition–noun | 1. | a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation. | | 2. | the faculty of perceiving what is amusing or comical: He is completely without humor. | | 3. | an instance of being or attempting to be comical or amusing; something humorous: The humor in his joke eluded the audience. | | 4. | the faculty of expressing the amusing or comical: The author's humor came across better in the book than in the movie. | | 5. | comical writing or talk in general; comical books, skits, plays, etc. | | 6. | humors, peculiar features; oddities; quirks: humors of life. | | 7. | mental disposition or temperament. |
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| 8. | a temporary mood or frame of mind: The boss is in a bad humor today. | | 9. | a capricious or freakish inclination; whim or caprice; odd trait. | | 10. | (in medieval physiology) one of the four elemental fluids of the body, blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, regarded as determining, by their relative proportions, a person's physical and mental constitution. | | 11. | any animal or plant fluid, whether natural or morbid, as the blood or lymph. | –verb (used with object) | 12. | to comply with the humor or mood of in order to soothe or make content or more agreeable: to humor a child. | | 13. | to adapt or accommodate oneself to. | —Idiom | 14. | out of humor, displeased; dissatisfied; cross: The chef is feeling out of humor again and will have to be treated carefully. | |
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