noun:

• house of parliament (congress, diet, etc.) ➜ 下院【かいん】
• graduate school; postgraduate school

suffix:

• institution (often medical); institutional building; government office ➜ 医院【いいん】・病院【びょういん】
• sub-temple; minor temple building; temple; cloister - Buddhism term

noun:

• imperial palace - honorific language
• title bestowed on empresses, princesses, etc. - honorific language - archaism ➜ 女院【にょういん】

suffix:

• former (esp. of emperors, daimyos, etc.); late

noun:

• turnout (of people)
• start (e.g. race, campaign, term of office)
• constant forward movement; initial charge; dash - Sumo term

noun / suffix noun:

• period; time
• age - Geology term
• term (e.g. in office); period
• session (e.g. of parliament)
• stage (e.g. disease)

noun:

• authorities; relevant authorities; authorities concerned
• this office

noun / ~する noun:

• detention; keeping; retaining
• mail held at the post office - abbreviation ➜ 留置郵便

noun:

• Nationalist Government (of China; i.e. under the Kuomintang) ［こくふ］ - abbreviation ➜ 国民政府
• provincial office (under the ritsuryo system); provincial capital ➜ 律令制

noun / suffix noun:

• superclass ［じょうこう］ - Biology term

noun:

• top-ranking priest in the Office of Monastic Affairs - archaism - Buddhism term ➜ 僧綱

noun:

• official publication; government publication
• book belonging to a government office

noun:

• drawing room; parlour; parlor
• reception office

noun:

• official in charge of the administration of domains and general affairs of powerful noble families (from the middle of the Heian period)
• titled lady (legal wife of an important official) - honorific language - abbreviation ➜ 北の政所
• government office related to finances (Kamakura and Muromachi periods)
• clerk working for large temples and shrines

noun / ~する noun:

• pelvic examination
• consultation at an office (as opposed to a house call) ➜ 宅診

noun:

• old girl; former female student ➜ ＯＢ
• office girl

noun / ~する noun:

• setting up a stall or booth (bazaar, festival)

noun / noun or verb acting prenominally / ~する noun:

• opening a branch office; opening a store

noun / ~する noun:

• good offices; recommendation; mediation
• (Tokugawa-era) employment office

noun:

• loyalty; devotion; fidelity; faithfulness
• inspector of the Imperial Prosecuting and Investigating Office (ritsuryo system) ➜ 判官【はんがん】・弾正台

noun:

• safe; strongbox; cashbox; vault; strongroom
• depository; cash office; treasury; provider of funds

noun:

• lower part; substructure
• subordinate (office); good and faithful servant

godan ~す verb / transitive:

• to drag down; to pull down
• to force out (of power, office, role, etc.)

noun:

• confined place

noun / ~する noun:

• closing (an institution, office, clinic, etc.)

godan ~く verb / intransitive verb:

• to stick (to); to cling (to)
• to stay (e.g. in the office)

noun:

• laboratory
• seminar room
• professor's office

noun:

• front (aspect, weather, war-front, etc.)
• reception (hotel, etc.); front desk
• front office; team management - Sports term

noun / ~する noun:

• waiting on a table; serving (at dinner)

noun:

• waiter; waitress; waitperson; server; cabin boy; bellboy; page; pageboy
• office boy; office girl

noun:

• workshop ［さいくじょ］ ➜ 工房
• Heian and Kamakura-period furniture workshop (established in temples and various government bodies)
• Edo period office which administered tenders for arms, armor, etc.