Definition of "in office" []

• Holding a formal position of employment or appointment. (adjective)

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• "E. D. Morgan was only in office as a New York state senator until 1853."
• "Even so, the issue agenda that Bush, Cheney, Rice, and others brought into the administration in 2001great powers, alliances, missile defense, even Iraqwas the same one many of them had focused on when they were last in office in the early 1990s."
• "Shultzs collegial style was much more suited to the Reagan presidency, and he would remain in office until its conclusion."