office
/ˈɒfɪs/
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
of - fice -> office
(n) ရုံးခန်း။
၁။ [C] (က) ရုံး။ She works in our Paris office. ❍ Our office is in the centre of the town. ❍ We ought to inform head office. ❍ an office job ❍ office equipment such as word processors and photocopiers ❍ office workers. (ခ) ရုံးခန်း။ ရုံး။ a lawyer's office ❍ Some secretaries have to share an office.
၂။ [C] (US ) ဆရာဝန်ရုံးခန်း။ the pediatrician's office.
၃။ [C] ရုံး။ ဌာန။ the lost property office ❍ a ticket office at a station ❍ the local tax office ❍ the Post Office. See also BOX-OFFICE, REGISTRY OFFICE
၄။ Office [C] (အစိုးရ) ရုံး၊ ဌာန။ work at/in the Foreign Office.
၅။ [C, U] အာဏာ။ အခြေအနေ။ ရာထူးဌာနန္တရ။ seek/accept/leave/resign office as a cabinet minister ❍ hold the office of mayor ❍ the party has been out of office (ie has not formed a government) for many years. ❍ The present administration took office in 1989. ❍ Which political party is in office in your country?
❏ office block n (ခြောက်ထပ်ရုံးကဲ့သို့) စုပေါင်းရုံး။ tall concrete office blocks ❍ The bank and the building society are in the same office block.
❏ office boy n (fem office girl ) (dated ) ရုံးလုလင်။ (ရုံးလုံမေ)။
❏ office-holder ( also office-bearer) n အသင်း အမှု ဆောင်။ All the office-bearers have to be elected.
❏ office hours n [pl] ရုံးချိန်။ Office hours vary from company to company.
❏ through sb's good offices [IDM ] (fml ) စောင်မမှု။ အကူအညီ။ through the good offices of our embassies overseas.
- I work in the company’s Los Angeles office.
- Our offices are on the third floor.
- [the office] : I usually try to leave the office before 6.00 pm.
- A regional/branch/local office
- A tourist information office
- I call the office twice a day when I’m travelling.
- Office furniture/stationery/supplies
- An office romance
- We’ve converted the spare bedroom into an office.
- The unemployment/tax office
- The Foreign/Home Office
- Bush was elected to the office of President in 2000.
- [run for office] : Bob plans to run for office next year.
- [take office] : The President takes office two months after the election.
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