office
To provide with an officeTo provide (someone) with an office.
» My uncle works in this office.
Mein Onkel arbeitet in diesem Büro. — driini
Мой дядя работает в этом офисе. — odexed
Мій дядько працює в цьому офісі. — deniko
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2 sensesTo provide (someone) with an office.
(intransitive)To have an office.
Examples
3785 sentencesMy uncle works in this office.
Мій дядько працює в цьому офісі. — deniko
ruМой дядя работает в этом офисе. — odexed
deMein Onkel arbeitet in diesem Büro. — driini
He came to my office yesterday.
Учора він прийшов до мого офісу. — deniko
ruВчера он пришёл ко мне в офис. — odexed
deEr ist gestern in mein Büro gekommen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
He's just an ordinary office worker.
Він звичайний офісний працівник. — deniko
ruОн - простой офисный служащий. — soniamiku
She has already left the office.
Вона вже залишила офіс. — ChickenKiev
ruОна уже покинула офис. — odexed
deSie hat das Büro schon verlassen. — Esperantostern
Let's go back to the office.
Повернімося до офісу. — deniko
ruДавайте вернёмся в офис. — Balamax
deLass uns zurück zum Büro gehen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Origin
From Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, officiFrom Middle English office, from Old French office, from Latin officium (“personal, official, or moral duty; official position; function; ceremony, esp. last rites”), contracted from opificium (“construction: the act of building or the thing built”), from opifex (“doer of work, craftsman”) + -ium (“-y”, forming actions), from op- (“work”) + -i- (connective) + -fex (combining form of faciō (“to do, to make”)).
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Forms
offices, officing, officed, officedLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
Collocations
12 patterns- the post office
- post office
- in his office
- in my office
- post office is
- in the office
- to my office
- office on mondays
- at the office
- to the office
- in her office
- an an office
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.