office vs provincial

office

noun
  • The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church. 

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

  • A daily service without the eucharist. 

  • A ministry or other department of government. 

  • The administrative departments housed in such places 

  • A particular place of business of a larger white-collar business. 

  • The daily service of the breviary, the liturgy for each canonical hour, including psalms, collects, and lessons. 

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

  • Inside information. 

  • Any special liturgy, as the Office for the Dead or of the Virgin. 

  • A service, a kindness. 

  • Last rites. 

  • A room, set of rooms, or building used for administration and bookkeeping. 

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

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

  • A room, set of rooms, or building used for consultation and diagnosis, but not surgery or other major procedures. 

  • The staff of such places. 

  • A room, set of rooms, or building used for selling services or tickets to the public. 

  • A ceremonial duty or service 

  • Various prayers used with modification as a morning or evening service. 

  • A position of responsibility. 

verb
  • To provide (someone) with an office. 

  • To have an office. 

provincial

noun
  • A monastic superior, who, under the general of his order, has the direction of all the religious houses of the same fraternity in a given district, called a province of the order. 

  • A country bumpkin. 

  • A person belonging to a province; one who is provincial. 

adj
  • Not cosmopolitan; backwoodsy, hick, yokelish, countrified; not polished; rude 

  • Narrow; illiberal. 

  • Constituting a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to a province. 

  • Limited in outlook; narrow. 

  • Exhibiting the ways or manners of a province; characteristic of the inhabitants of a province. 

  • Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical province, or to the jurisdiction of an archbishop; not ecumenical. 

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