{
  "id": "office.workplace",
  "term": "office",
  "sense": "workplace",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "vocab.en",
  "domain": "common",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a room where people do work",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "rooms.space",
      "people.social",
      "work.effort"
    ],
    "interaction": "people together do work in the room",
    "novel_properties": [
      "designated workspace",
      "business identity",
      "shared equipment"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The International Space Station's Columbus module hosts astronauts conducting microgravity experiments for eight-hour shifts.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "Employees at the New York Times newsroom in Manhattan produce daily editions using digital editing suites and editorial workflows.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "Software developers at GitHub Inc. collaborate in a San Francisco open-plan office to maintain and update code repositories.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "rooms.space",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "work.effort",
      "note": "enables",
      "type": "enables"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "office",
    "offices"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-office.workplace"
}