Ministry vs. Office

Ministrynoun

Government department, at the administrative level normally headed by a minister (or equivalent rank, e.g. secretary of state), who holds it as portfolio, especially in a constitutional monarchy, but also as a polity

Ministrynoun

The complete body of government ministers (whether or not they are in cabinet) under the leadership of a head of government (such as a prime minister)

Ministrynoun

A ministration

Ministrynoun

The active practice and education of the minister of a particular religion or faith.

Ministrynoun

(Christianity) The clergy of nonapostolic Protestant churches.

Ministrynoun

(Christianity) Work of a spiritual or charitable nature.

Ministrynoun

The act of ministering; ministration; service.

Ministrynoun

Agency; instrumentality.

Ministrynoun

The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession.

Ministrynoun

The body of ministers of state; also, the clergy, as a body.

Ministrynoun

Administration; rule; term in power; as, the ministry of Pitt.

Ministrynoun

religious ministers collectively (especially Presbyterian)

Ministrynoun

building where the business of a government ministry is transacted

Ministrynoun

a government department under the direction of a minister

Ministrynoun

(in certain countries) a government department headed by a minister

Ministrynoun

the work or vocation of a minister of religion

Ministrynoun

the period of tenure of a minister of religion

Ministrynoun

the spiritual work or service of a Christian or a group of Christians, especially evangelism

Ministrynoun

(in certain countries) a period of government under one prime minister

Ministrynoun

the action of ministering to someone

Officenoun

A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:

Officenoun

The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.

Officenoun

Mass, the introit sung at its beginning.

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

A daily service without the eucharist.

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

Last rites.

Officenoun

A position of responsibility.

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

A service, a kindness.

Officenoun

Inside information.

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

The staff of such places.

Officenoun

The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:

Officenoun

A ministry or other department of government.

Officenoun

Short for Holy Office: the court of final appeal in cases of heresy.

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

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.

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

A hangout: a place where one is normally found.

Officenoun

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

Officenoun

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

Officeverb

To provide (someone) with an office.

Officeverb

(intransitive) To have an office.

Officenoun

That which a person does, either voluntarily or by appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to man; as, kind offices, pious offices.

Officenoun

A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal office.

Officenoun

A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.

Officenoun

That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done, by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to perform; a function; - answering to duty in intelligent beings.

Officenoun

The place where any kind of business or service for others is transacted; a building, suite of rooms, or room in which public officers or workers in any organization transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office; the doctor's office; the Mayor's office.

Officenoun

The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.

Officenoun

The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.

Officenoun

Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.

Officeverb

To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.

Officenoun

place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed;

Officenoun

an administrative unit of government;

Officenoun

the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group;

Officenoun

(of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power;

Officenoun

professional or clerical workers in an office;

Officenoun

a religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities;

Officenoun

a job in an organization;

Office

An office is generally a building, room or other area where an organization's employees perform administrative work in order to support and realize objects and goals of the organization. The word may also denote a position within an organization with specific duties attached to it (see officer, office-holder, official); the latter is in fact an earlier usage, office as place originally referring to the location of one's duty.