office vs place

office

noun
  • A position of responsibility. 

  • 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. 

  • The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church. 

  • A ceremonial duty or service 

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

verb
  • To provide (someone) with an office. 

  • To have an office. 

place

noun
  • A role or purpose; a station. 

  • An inhabited area: a village, town, or city. 

  • Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity. 

  • A state of mind. 

  • The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position. 

  • An area of the body, especially the skin. 

  • An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard. 

  • The position of a contestant in a competition. 

  • A location or position in space. 

  • Reception; effect; implying the making room for. 

  • The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit. 

  • A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name. 

  • The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms. 

  • A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader. 

  • The position as a member of a sports team. 

  • Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding. 

  • An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory. 

  • Any area of the earth: a region. 

verb
  • To arrange for or to make (a bet). 

  • To finish second, especially of horses or dogs. 

  • To sing (a note) with the correct pitch. 

  • To earn a given spot in a competition. 

  • To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race. 

  • To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. 

  • To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar). 

  • To put (an object or person) in a specific location. 

  • To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc. 

  • To place-kick (a goal). 

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