Synonyms for office
Another word for office is business office, agency or authority. Below are 16 synonyms and 30 related words across 7 senses.
Also searched as: offices.
1. noun: place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed
- business office
2. noun: an administrative unit of government
- agency synonyms
- authority synonyms
- government agency
- federal agency
- bureau synonyms
3. noun: the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- part synonyms
- role synonyms
- function synonyms
4. noun: (of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power
5. noun: professional or clerical workers in an office
- office staff
6. noun: a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities
7. noun: a job in an organization
- place synonyms
- post synonyms
- position synonyms
- situation synonyms
- berth synonyms
Related words
Broader, narrower and sibling terms from the same WordNet tree. They aren't interchangeable, but one of them is often the word you wanted.
- place of business
- life office
- home office
- government office
- main office
- home base synonyms
- central office
- box office
- loan office
- ticket office
- shipping office
- business establishment
- headquarters synonyms
- ticket booth
- newsroom
- local authority
- space agency
- independent agency
- executive agency
- administrative body
- administrative unit
- law enforcement agency
- organ synonyms
- duty synonyms
- capacity synonyms
- hat
- portfolio
- lieu
- second fiddle
- stead
Office in word games
- Letters
- 6
- Scrabble
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 15
- How common
- Everyday word
- Unscramble OFFICE
- Is OFFICE a word?
- Words starting with O
Questions people ask
What is another word for office?
You can say business office, agency, authority, government agency or federal agency instead of office. Which one fits depends on the sense; the first sense above means "place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed".
What is the opposite of office?
WordNet lists no direct antonym for office; the nearest opposites depend on which sense you mean.
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