[
UK
/əfˈɪʃəl/
]
[ US /əˈfɪʃəɫ/ ]
[ US /əˈfɪʃəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution
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of or relating to an office
official privileges -
having official authority or sanction
official permission
an official representative -
conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline
in prescribed order -
verified officially
the election returns are now official
NOUN
-
someone who administers the rules of a game or sport
the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling - a worker who holds or is invested with an office
How To Use official In A Sentence
- Use of a University-owned mobile telephone and mobile telephone airtime service is intended for official University business.
- Airline officials are calling the attack a suicide attempt.
- It had begun the seventies with the declared intention of contributing 0.7 percent of the gross national product in official aid.
- There was some discussion about the relationship between official and unofficial action.
- Surely one of the agonizing attributes of our post – September 11 age is the unending need to reaffirm realities that have been proved, and proved again, but just as doggedly denied by those in power, forcing us to live trapped between two narratives of present history, the one gaining life and color and vigor as more facts become known, the other growing ever paler, brittler, more desiccated, barely sustained by the life support of official power. 'The Moment Has Come to Get Rid of Saddam'
- Should we accept an iffy grant from a local official? Times, Sunday Times
- The broadcaster attacked customs officials and police who seemingly stood on the quayside watching without intervening to help. Times, Sunday Times
- A few years ago Rod and I were being lobbied by a group of officials from a large corporation.
- The ICR would have the authority to annul laws or dismiss public officials to uphold the Kosovo settlement.
- ‘Behind the scenes there are still a number of points that deserve attention,’ the unidentified official said, according to the semi-official Central News Agency.