public office

C122
concept

A public office is an official position of authority and responsibility within a government or public institution, held to serve the interests and welfare of the public under established laws and regulations.

All labels observed (70)

Label Occurrences
government office 1,495
political office 1,373
public office canonical 1,222

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: public office
Generated description
A public office is an official position of authority and responsibility within a government or public institution, held to serve the interests and welfare of the public under established laws and regulations.

Instances (5,438)

Instance Via concept surface
Commander-in-Chief
President of South Vietnam political office
IPS
surface form: Indian Police Service
civil service
Director General of Police government office
Director, Central Bureau of Investigation government office
Director General, Central Reserve Police Force government office
Indian Forest Service civil service
IFS
surface form: Indian Foreign Service
civil service
Supreme Commander of the Indian Armed Forces constitutional office
Minister of Foreign Affairs (Norway) government office
Republican National Committee Co-Chair political office
Pennsylvania
surface form: Governor of Pennsylvania
political office
Shadow United States Senator for the District of Columbia political office
Governor-General of the Dutch Gold Coast
Cabinet of Guam cabinet
Minister of Economy and Finance of Ecuador government office
Minister of Defense of Ecuador government office
Minister of Urban Development and Housing of Ecuador government office
Governor of Sergipe executive office
Criminal Records Office
surface form: Criminal Records Office (Bermuda Police Service)
government office
Prime Minister’s Office of France government office
Deutch
surface form: Director of Central Intelligence
government office
Office of Investigations and Counterintelligence government office
First Minister of State political office
Premier of KwaZulu-Natal political office
Office of the President of Ecuador executive office
Cabinet of Zimbabwe cabinet
Minister of Finance (Norway) cabinet position
Director General, Border Security Force government office
Director, Intelligence Bureau government office
Vice President of Zimbabwe political office
Prime Minister of Serbia government office
Premier of New South Wales political office
Attorney General of New Hampshire
Queen's Commissioner in the province of Groningen
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Korea
Foreign Secretary of India government office
Minister of the Interior of Ecuador government office
Baron McFall of Alcluith
surface form: Lord Speaker of the House of Lords
parliamentary office
Office of Cyber Threat and Investigations government office
President of Tunisia political office
Office of the Deputy Secretary of Transportation government office
Secretary of Education of Puerto Rico government office
Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands political office
President of Sierra Leone political office
President of the Regional Government of the Azores political office
Minister of Energy and Non-Renewable Natural Resources of Ecuador cabinet position
Leader of the House of Commons parliamentary office
Under Secretary of the Navy civilian office
Minister of Labor of Ecuador government office