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Type Words
Synonyms prescribed
Derivation office
Type Words
Synonyms functionary
Type of skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker
Has types apparatchik, appointee, bailiff, beadle, bureaucrat, caretaker, censor, census taker, church officer, city father, civil servant, commissar, comptroller general, comptroller of the currency, diplomat, diplomatist, doorkeeper, elected official, enumerator, equerry, federal agent, fire marshall, fire warden, weigher, forest fire fighter, hangover, hearing examiner, hearing officer, holdover, incumbent, inquisitor, invalidator, judge, jurist, justice, licenser, vote counter, mace, macebearer, macer, mandarin, notary, notary public, noticer, nullifier, officeholder, officer, political commissar, postmaster general, proconsul, prosecuting attorney, prosecuting officer, prosecutor, provincial, public prosecutor, quaestor, ranger, record-keeper, recorder, recruiter, voider, vizier, registrar, regulator, returning officer, usher, town clerk, administrative official, agent, sealer, searcher, teller
Derivation officialdom
Type Words
Derivation office


official permission.
an official representative.
Type Words
Type Words
Type of adjudicator
Has types referee, ref, linesman, football official, dispatcher, scorekeeper, timekeeper, timer, starter, scorer, ump, umpire


the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling.
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the election returns are now official.
Type Words
Derivation office


official privileges.

Examples of official

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The women have gotten in only one official training run, a split session Monday.
From the dailyherald.com
The official stresses that there is no intelligence about an active terror plot.
From the dailyherald.com
Martin had previously been sued only in his official capacity as chief of staff.
From the stltoday.com
He is not an elected official and does not represent any of us in that capacity.
From the desmoinesregister.com
Rather, the mayor said he attended the events in his official capacity as mayor.
From the thenewstribune.com
He is hoping to get an invitation to make an official visit to Michigan as well.
From the orlandosentinel.com
It rolled right into the 167-yard par-3 hole for his first official hole in one.
From the omaha.com
Poehl, a former finance ministry official, led the Bundesbank from 1980 to 1991.
From the bloomberg.com
A military official said the man was rescued today from the rubble in Kesennuma.
From the denverpost.com
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  • Having official authority or sanction; "official permission"; "an official representative"
  • A worker who holds or is invested with an office
  • Of or relating to an office; "official privileges"
  • Someone who administers the rules of a game or sport; "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"
  • Conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline; "in prescribed order"
  • (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution
  • An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either his own or that of his superior and/or employer, public or legally private).
  • In American football, an official is a person who has responsibility in enforcing the rules and maintaining the order of the game.
  • Rugby league match officials are responsible for fairly enforcing the Laws of the Game during a match of rugby league football and imposing penalties for deliberate breaches of these Laws. ...