Office - English meaning

noun

Public support for or recommendation of a particular cause or policy.

Usage examples:

His outspoken advocacy of the agreement has won no friends

noun

Public support of an idea, plan, or way of doing something

Usage examples:

An advocacy group/organization he got a reminder from the business advocacy group that he should be…

noun

Public support for an idea, plan, or way of doing something

Usage examples:

She is renowned for her advocacy of human rights., a nonprofit advocacy group

noun

The protection, backing, or support of a particular person or organization.

Usage examples:

The negotiations were conducted under the aegis of the un

noun

With the protection or support of someone or something, especially an organization

Usage examples:

The project was set up under the aegis of the university.

noun

A business or organization providing a particular service on behalf of another business, person, or group.

Usage examples:

An advertising agency

noun

A business acting for or representing a person, an organization, or another business

Usage examples:

An advertising/employment agency, a real estate agency, federal agencies, the environmental protect…

noun

A business that provides a service to other people or organizations

Usage examples:

Background checks may be done in-house or by an outside agency., she now runs an agency which last …

noun

Help, typically of a practical nature.

Usage examples:

He saw the pilot slumped in his cockpit and went to his aid

verb

Help or support (someone or something) in the achievement of something.

Usage examples:

Women were aided in childbirth by midwives

abbreviation

Artificial insemination by donor.

noun

An arrangement to meet someone at a particular time and place.

Usage examples:

She made an appointment with my receptionist

A meeting arranged in advance

noun

A formal arrangement to meet or visit someone at a particular time and place

Usage examples:

[ c ] i have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow.

noun

The action of helping someone by sharing work.

Usage examples:

The work was completed with the assistance of carpenters

noun

Help, especially money or resources that are given to people, countries, etc. when they have experienced a difficult situation

Usage examples:

Need/seek assistance the minister revealed that the banking industry needed assistance from the tax…

noun

Help

Usage examples:

Financial assistance the company needs more financial assistance from the government., give assista…

noun

A divine or prophetic token.

Usage examples:

Cultural genealogy, more so than ordinary genealogy, depends on a belief in the magical and usually…

noun

With the protection or support of someone or something, especially an organization

Usage examples:

Financial aid is being provided to the country under the auspices of the international monetary fund.

noun

Help or support.

Usage examples:

The foreign secretary won the backing of opposition parties

verb

Give financial, material, or moral support to.

Usage examples:

He had a newspaper empire backing him

noun

Support or help

Usage examples:

If i go ahead with this project, can i count on your backing?

noun

The lowest part or edge of something, especially the part on which it rests or is supported.

Usage examples:

She sat down at the base of a tree

verb

Use (something specified) as the foundation or starting point for something.

Usage examples:

The film is based on a novel by pat conroy

adjective

Without moral principles; ignoble.

Usage examples:

The electorate's baser instincts of greed and selfishness

noun

The maximum amount that something can contain.

Usage examples:

The capacity of the freezer is 1.1 cubic feet

noun

The amount that can be held or produced by something

Usage examples:

[ c ] the stadium has a seating capacity of 50,000., [ u ] the theater was full to capacity that ni…

noun

The total amount or number of things or people that something can hold

Usage examples:

A capacity of sth the tanks have a capacity of 1000 litres., capacity audience/crowd the rally drew…

noun

The point that is equally distant from every point on the circumference of a circle or sphere.

Usage examples:

She was so angered by this thought that she had changed forms and was halfway to the center of the …

verb

Occur mainly in or around (a specified place).

Usage examples:

The textile industry was centred in lancashire and yorkshire

proper noun

A region of central france, including the cities of orleans, tours, and chartres.

noun

An activity that is natural to or the purpose of a person or thing.

Usage examples:

Bridges perform the function of providing access across water

verb

Work or operate in a proper or particular way.

Usage examples:

Her liver is functioning normally

noun

A purpose or duty, or the way something or someone works

Usage examples:

[ u ] the function of the veins is to carry blood to the heart., [ c ] one of your functions as rec…

noun

The premises occupied by a military commander and the commander's staff.

Usage examples:

Its main generating unit was the staff headquarters of the red army's rear services.

verb

Have headquarters at a specified location.

Usage examples:

Unesco is headquartered in paris

plural noun

The main offices or center of operations of an organization, such as the army, police, or a company

Usage examples:

The 15-person company will be headquartered in san francisco.

verb

Make it easier or possible for (someone) to do something by offering one's services or resources.

Usage examples:

They helped her with domestic chores

noun

The action of helping someone to do something.

Usage examples:

I asked for help from my neighbours

exclamation

Used as an appeal for urgent assistance.

Usage examples:

Help! i'm drowning!

noun

The action of intervening on behalf of another.

Usage examples:

He only escaped ruin by the intercession of his peers with the king

noun

The act of using your influence to make someone in authority forgive someone else or save them from punishment

Usage examples:

Several political prisoners have been released through the intercession of amnesty international.

noun

A prayer that asks god or a god to help or cure other people

noun

The process by which money that has been invested in a bank, etc. is lent to people, companies, etc. who want to borrow it

Usage examples:

Our aim is to bring about enhanced financial intermediation through stable and sustainable interest…

noun

The act of carrying messages or making connections between people or things that are unwilling or unable to meet

Usage examples:

We rely on intermediation by a sales team that has a good relationship with our customers., the int…

noun

The action or process of intervening.

Usage examples:

A high degree of state intervention in the economy

noun

The act or fact of becoming involved intentionally in a difficult situation

Usage examples:

[ c ] the intervention by un troops prevented fighting from breaking out.

noun

Involvement in a difficult situation in order to improve it or prevent it from getting worse, or an occasion when this is done

Usage examples:

Intervention in sth any intervention in the currency markets has to be followed by a tightening of …

noun

A paid position of regular employment.

Usage examples:

The scheme could create 200 jobs

verb

Do casual or occasional work.

Usage examples:

He left school and jobbed around as a car parts salesman, warehouseman, and removal man

noun

An act of prodding, thrusting, or wrenching.

noun

Intervention in a dispute in order to resolve it; arbitration.

Usage examples:

The parties have sought mediation and it has failed

noun

The process by which someone tries to end a disagreement by helping the two sides to talk about and agree on a solution

Usage examples:

Many cases are settled out of court through mediation or other means., mediation service/process/ta…

noun

A job or profession.

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People in professional occupations

adjective

For the sole use of the occupiers of the land concerned.

Usage examples:

An occupation bridge

noun

The support given by a patron.

Usage examples:

The arts could no longer depend on private patronage

noun

The power to give someone an important job or advantages in exchange for help or support

Usage examples:

New rules would minimize the effects of political patronage.

noun

The business given to a shop, restaurant, hotel, etc. by its customers

Usage examples:

Many wealthy japanese have shifted their patronage to the new western luxury hotels., the company i…

noun

A particular position, point, or area in space; a location.

Usage examples:

I can't be in two places at once

verb

Put in a particular position.

Usage examples:

A newspaper had been placed beside my plate

noun

An area, town, building, etc.

Usage examples:

Her garden was a cool pleasant place to sit., what was the name of that place we drove through on t…

noun

A place where someone or something is located or has been put.

Usage examples:

The distress call had given the ship's position

verb

Put or arrange (someone or something) in a particular place or way.

Usage examples:

He pulled out a chair and positioned it between them

noun

A long, sturdy piece of timber or metal set upright in the ground and used as a support or marker.

Usage examples:

Follow the blue posts until the track meets a road

verb

Display (a notice) in a public place.

Usage examples:

A curt notice had been posted on the door

adverb

With haste.

Usage examples:

Come now, come post

noun

An actor's part in a play, film, etc.

Usage examples:

Dietrich's role as a wife in war-torn paris

noun

The action of helping or doing work for someone.

Usage examples:

Millions are involved in voluntary service

verb

A system supplying a public need such as transport, communications, or utilities such as electricity and water.

Usage examples:

A regular bus service

noun

A set of circumstances in which one finds oneself; a state of affairs.

Usage examples:

The situation between her and jake had come to a head

noun

A condition or combination of conditions that exist at a particular time

Usage examples:

I was in a situation where i didn’t have cash handy.

noun

The conditions that exist at a particular time and place

Usage examples:

Some dealers have taken advantage of the situation by adding £1,000 or more to the suggested retail…

noun

A place on a railway line where trains regularly stop so that passengers can get on or off.

Usage examples:

We walked back to the station and caught the train back to brussels

verb

Short for stations of the cross.

noun

A building or buildings and the surrounding area where a particular service or activity takes place

Usage examples:

A train/bus station, a gas station, a police/fire station, at our house in the mountains we only ge…

noun

A room where an artist, photographer, sculptor, etc. works.

Usage examples:

Mostly the painting is done in the studio, working from drawings

noun

A room where an artist paints or a musician practices

Usage examples:

An artist’s studio, most of the big studios are in hollywood.

noun

A room with special equipment where television or radio programmes or music recordings are made

Usage examples:

Television/radio/recording studio i work in a television studio in boston., they filmed the intervi…

verb

Bear all or part of the weight of; hold up.

Usage examples:

The dome was supported by a hundred white columns

noun

A thing that bears the weight of something or keeps it upright.

Usage examples:

The best support for a camera is a tripod

verb

The act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

noun

A place where people work, such as an office or factory.

Usage examples:

Health and safety in the workplace

noun

A place where people do their jobs

noun

A building or room where people perform their jobs, or these places generally

Usage examples:

We are trying to eliminate sex discrimination in the workplace., in the new digital workplace, empl…

noun

A room for working in, especially one equipped for a particular kind of work.

Usage examples:

Padded dress form torsos are a common sight at pattern companies, factory workrooms and professiona…

noun

A room in which work is done, especially making things

Usage examples:

The company has laid off all but the 20 people in the workroom making shirts.