official
official: adj. & n. --adj.
1 of or relating to an office (see OFFICE n.
5, 6) or its tenure or duties.
2 characteristic of officials and bureaucracy.
3 emanating from or attributable to a person in office; properly authorized.
4 holding office; employed in a public capacity.
5 Med. according to the pharmacopoeia, officinal. --n.
1 a person holding office or engaged in official duties.
2 (in full official principal) the presiding officer or judge of an archbishop's, bishop's, or esp. archdeacon's court. official birthday Brit. a day in June chosen for the observance of the sovereign's birthday. official secrets confidential information involving national security. officialdom n. officialism n. officially adv. [ME (as noun) f. OF f. L officialis (as OFFICE)]
Most popular pairs with official
official time
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