Functioning and Office

noun

• Process or manner of functioning or operating.
  • usage: "the power of its engine determines its operation"; "the plane's operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance conformed to high standards"
  • synonyms: operation, performance

verb

• Perform as expected when applied.
  • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • synonyms: function, work, operate, go, run
• Serve a purpose, role, or function.
  • usage: "The tree stump serves as a table"; "The female students served as a control group"; "This table would serve very well"; "His freedom served him well"; "The table functions as a desk"
  • synonyms: serve, function
• Perform duties attached to a particular office or place or function.
  • usage: "His wife officiated as his private secretary"
  • synonyms: officiate, function

adjective

• Performing or able to perform its regular function.
  • usage: "a functioning flashlight"

noun

• Place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed.
  • usage: "he rented an office in the new building"
  • synonyms: business office
• An administrative unit of government.
  • usage: "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
  • synonyms: agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, authority
• The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
  • usage: "the function of a teacher"; "the government must do its part"; "play its role"
  • synonyms: function, part, role
• Of a government or government official. ( holding an office means being in power)
  • usage: "being in office already gives a candidate a great advantage"; "during his first year in office"; "during his first year in power"; "the power of the president"
  • synonyms: power
• Professional or clerical workers in an office.
  • usage: "the whole office was late the morning of the blizzard"
  • synonyms: office staff
• A religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities.
  • usage: "the offices of the mass"
• A job in an organization.
  • usage: "he occupied a post in the treasury"
  • synonyms: position, post, berth, spot, billet, place, situation

• (n.) The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics discharge the duties attached to the service of a house, as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The company or corporation or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) The place where a particular kind of business or service for others is transacted; a house or apartment in which public officers and others transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's office.
• (n.) 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.
• (v.t.) To perform, as the duties of an office; to discharge.
• (n.) Any service other than that of ordination and the Mass; any prescribed religious service.
• (n.) 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.

(DoD) An enduring organization that is formed around a specific function within a joint force commander's headquarters to coordinate and manage support requirements.