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Sounds | ahfih'shahl |
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Rhymes | abdominal, Abel, able, and 2059 more rhymes in ahl at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Having official authority or sanction. |
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Examples | "official permission"; "an official representative" |
Similar | authoritative, authorized, authorised; ex officio; formal; formalized, formalised; semiofficial |
See also | authorized, authorised |
Contrary | unofficial |
Adverbs | officially |
Meaning | Of or relating to an office. |
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Examples | "official privileges" |
Nouns | office |
Meaning | Verified officially. |
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Examples | "the election returns are now official" |
Similar to | confirmed |
Meaning | Conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline. |
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Synonyms | prescribed |
Similar to | regular |
Adverbs | officially |
Meaning | (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution. |
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Category | church service, church |
Similar to | established, constituted |
Meaning | A worker who holds or is invested with an office. |
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Synonyms | functionary |
Narrower | appointee; bailiff; beadle; bureaucrat, administrative official; caretaker; censor; census taker, enumerator; church officer; city father; civil servant; commissar, political commissar; Comptroller General; Comptroller of the Currency; diplomat, diplomatist; elected official; equerry; fire marshall; fire warden, forest fire fighter, ranger; hearing examiner, hearing officer; holdover, hangover; incumbent, officeholder; Inquisitor; invalidator, voider, nullifier; judge, justice, jurist, magistrate; licenser; macebearer, mace, macer; mandarin; notary, notary public; noticer; officeholder, officer; agent, federal agent; provincial; postmaster general; proconsul; prosecutor, public prosecutor, prosecuting officer, prosecuting attorney; quaestor; recruiter; registrar, record-keeper, recorder; regulator; returning officer; sealer; searcher; teller, vote counter; town clerk; usher, doorkeeper; vizier; weigher |
Broader | skilled worker, trained worker |
Meaning | Someone who administers the rules of a game or sport. |
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Examples | "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling" |
Narrower | football official; linesman; referee, ref; scorekeeper, scorer; starter, dispatcher; timekeeper, timer; umpire, ump |
Broader | adjudicator |