Timeline for Can "take office" be used for any profession, or what expression should I use?
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| Mar 6, 2023 at 12:09 | comment | added | João Mendes | "Take office" may be appropriate for positions that aren't "of authority". For instance, for a professor taking an existing chair, "Jill Prof took office as the Jack Superstar Professor of Thingamajigs". Even for a very menial position, "Joe Minutes has taken office as the secretary of the assembly of homeowners and will be taking minutes of the meeting" . It's like you said, the "office" should be a post with an individually recognizable existence pertaining to an individually recognizable duty beyond the person that currently occupies it. "Authority" seems to be ancillary to the concept. | |
| Mar 6, 2023 at 4:18 | history | answered | Acccumulation | CC BY-SA 4.0 |