ADJECTIVE
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by virtue of an office or position
the head of the department serves as an ex officio member of the board
ADVERB
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by virtue of position
the president sat on the committee ex officio
How To Use ex officio In A Sentence
- The abbess was a baroness _ex officio_, and the revenue at the dissolution of the monasteries was £1084. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
- the head of the department serves as an ex officio member of the board
- A queer shavetail with a carbine in a foxhole at Iwo Jima, he went on the become an ex officio judge of the annual poetry contest at the Japanese Imperial Court. Seidensticker’s Passing
- It is extraordinarily wasteful of the talents of a broad range of people, when we proceed as if leadership could only exist ex officio, as if conferral of office created a leader, as if leadership were non-existent apart from administrative titles. Thomas Worcester: Do Good Leaders Abound In The Catholic Church?
- Governor of the Straits Settlements being _ex officio_ the High Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China
- the president sat on the committee ex officio
- In the object, the facts related with personal relationship, ex officio and judicial notice can not be made self-admission.
- Major Anderson and his wife were now ex officio members of the sanctuary, thanks to their work on the aqueduct. RUSHING TO PARADISE