Concern vs. Office — What's the Difference?

Relate to; be about

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 "office" 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.

Make (someone) anxious or worried

A place in which business, clerical, or professional activities are conducted.

Anxiety; worry

The administrative personnel, executives, or staff working in such a place

A matter of interest or importance to someone

A subdivision of a governmental department

A business

A major executive division of a government

A complicated or awkward object.

A position of authority, duty, or trust given to a person, as in a government or corporation

To have to do with or relate to

Public position

To be of interest or importance to

A duty or function assigned to or assumed by someone

To engage the attention of; involve

Often offices A service or beneficial act done for another

To cause anxiety or uneasiness in

The canonical hours.

To be of importance.

A prayer service in the Anglican Church, such as Morning or Evening Prayer.

A matter that relates to or affects one

A ceremony, rite, or service for a special purpose, especially the Office of the Dead.

Regard for or interest in someone or something

Offices Chiefly British The parts of a house, such as the laundry and kitchen, in which servants carry out household work.

A troubled or anxious state of mind

A ceremonial duty or service, particularly:

A business establishment or enterprise; a firm.

The authorized form of ceremonial worship of a church.

That which affects one’s welfare or happiness. A matter of interest to someone.

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

The placement of interest or worry on a subject.

A daily service without the eucharist.

A worry; a sense that something may be wrong; an identification of a possible problem.

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

The expression of solicitude, anxiety, or compassion toward a thing or person.

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

A business, firm or enterprise; a company.

Last rites.

(programming) Any set of information that affects the code of a computer program.

Mass, the introit sung at its beginning.

(transitive) To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

A position of responsibility.

(transitive) To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest.

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

(transitive) To make somebody worried.

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

To relate or belong to; to have reference to or connection with; to affect the interest of; to be of importance to.

Function: anything typically done by or expected of something.

To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.

A service, a kindness.

To be of importance.

Inside information.

That which relates or belongs to one; business; affair.

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

That which affects the welfare or happiness; interest; moment.

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

Interest in, or care for, any person or thing; regard; solicitude; anxiety.

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

Persons connected in business; a firm and its business; as, a banking concern.

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

Something that interests you because it is important or affects you;

The staff of such places.

An anxious feeling;

The administrative departments housed in such places, particularly:

A commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it;

A ministry or other department of government.

Something or someone that causes anxiety; a source of unhappiness;

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

A feeling of sympathy for someone or something;

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

Have to do with or be relevant to;

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.

Be on the mind of;

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

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

A hangout: a place where one is normally found.

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

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

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

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

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

To provide (someone) with an office.

(intransitive) To have an office.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Place of business where professional or clerical duties are performed;

An administrative unit of government;

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

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

Professional or clerical workers in an office;

A religious rite or service prescribed by ecclesiastical authorities;

A job in an organization;