Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Not official; destitute of official character or authority; unofficial: as, inofficial intelligence.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Not official; not having official sanction or authority; unofficial; not according to the forms or ceremony of official business.

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  • adjective unofficial

Etymologies

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in- +‎ official

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Examples

  • Iraq War casus belli indoubts within ranks of CIA aboutevolving nature ofexile intelligence in ramp up toinitial invasion ofinsurgency oflack of evidence forlooting inofficial vs. actual position of Bush administration beforeopposition to more forces inprovisional government in exile ofseen as damaging to war on terror at CIAseen by Bush administration as inevitabletransformation of national security bureaucracy prompted byU.S. military resources in

    State of War James Risen 2006

  • Penny, which inofficial Blogger buttons do you mean? have not seen them.

    Button 2005

  • These are the inofficial job titles, bureaucracy calls them Erzieher/in.

    languagehat.com: KINDERGARTNER. 2004

  • Willhelm Stenhammar, has won the position as Sweden's inofficial national anthem.

    The Nobel Stamps of 1976 1976

  • Finding that my interference, which was friendly only, and avowed to be inofficial, has given occasion to your letter of yesterday, in a style which I did not expect, and to which I can have no motive for further exposing myself, I must take the liberty of desiring that the correspondence between us on this subject may cease.

    Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784

  • It is known that Bakiyev with one of his inofficial wives and children lives in Lukashenka's residence in Drazdy or in Berezensky natural reserve.

    APA 2010

  • The camping site ravages of the Audiolith crew are tradiontially opening Melt! festival and they have a short, but wild history: For the past couple of years, they have always been the perfect - even though inofficial - opening of the Melt! weekend.

    Feeder igu 2010

  • There are many other inofficial phpBB sites offering questionable code as MODs that could fill-in this need, but without any advertising here, this problem will stay under the radar and everyone would be happy.

    phpBB.com 2010

  • There are however inofficial patches for advanced statistics that provide the details needed for optimizing your list of indexes.

    Planet MySQL Moviepilot 2010

  • Versions 1.04 (included with coast-to-coast exp.), 1.05 and the inofficial 1.06 crash to desktop as soon as the main game menu is displayed.

    NT Compatible 2010

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