Meaning

• A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:

• A position of responsibility.

  "When the office of Secretary of State is vacant, its duties fall upon an official within the department."

• Official position, particularly high employment within government; tenure in such a position.

  "She held office as secretary of state until she left office to run for office."

• An official or group of officials; a personification of officeholders.

• A duty, particularly owing to one's position or station; a charge, trust, or role; moral duty.

• The performance of a duty; an instance of performing a duty.

• Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.

• A bodily function, urination and defecation; an act of urination or defecation.

• (now usually in plural) A service, a kindness.

• Inside information.

• A room, set of rooms, or building used for non-manual work, particularly:

  "The office of the Secretary of State is cleaned when it is vacant."

• The staff of such places.

  "The whole office was there... well, except you, of course."

• (in large organizations) The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:

  "He's from our public relations office."

• (now in the plural) The parts of a house or estate devoted to manual work and storage, as the kitchen, scullery, laundry, stables, etc., particularly a house or estate's facilities for urination and defecation: outhouses or lavatories.

• Clipping of inquest of office: an inquest undertaken on occasions when the Crown claimed the right of possession to land or property.

• A piece of land used for hunting; the area of land overseen by a gamekeeper.

• A hangout: a place where one is normally found.

• A plane's cockpit, particularly an observer's cockpit.

• A collection of business software typically including a word processor and spreadsheet and slideshow programs.

Meaning

• To provide (someone) with an office.

• To have an office.