Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not official.
- adjective Not acting officially.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not official; specifically, in medicine, not approved by an authoritative body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
officially established . - adjective Not
acting with officialauthority . - adjective pharmacology Not listed in a national
pharmacopeia &c.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not having official authority or sanction
- adjective not officially established
Etymologies
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Examples
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The foreign ministers, he says, have agreed to what he called an unofficial ceasefire, to allow in unarmed Indonesian military and civilian observers to enforce the ceasefire, and to hold further bilateral talks with Indonesian participation in the near future.
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Must emphasise that the word "unofficial" in that quote.
Greek PM Papandreou wins confidence vote - November 4 2011 2011
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The foreign ministers, he says, have agreed to what he called an unofficial ceasefire, to allow in unarmed Indonesian military and civilian observers to enforce the ceasefire, and to hold further bilateral talks with Indonesian participation in the near future.
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In the past, you have been involved in conducting what you call unofficial conversations with Taiwan's NSC director, Mr. Ding Mou-shih.
Press Briefing By Mccurry And Steinberg ITY National Archives 1998
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The South African Police Union on Thursday criticised what it called the unofficial freezing of promotions within the force because of the integration former homeland officers.
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No greater praise can be given than by those who use the Raven and this can be evidenced at the always excellent military website StrategyPage which reports that the Raven is winning what it terms the unofficial "Commando Olympics."
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They authorized the use of torture, and some people were tortured to death in unofficial CIA prisons; no one got charged for those crimes.
Matthew Yglesias » Conservatives’ Unhinged Attacks on Nancy Pelosi 2009
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Concerns of brandjacking and Twitter-squatting aside – and increasingly these concepts seem hugely over-simplified if not redundant – unofficial is often good if not better.
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Our reader offers the following (in unofficial translation) taken from Katholiek Nieuwsblad (Catholic Weekly) in the Netherlands:
Reform of the Reform Parish of St. Willibrord, Utretcht, Reportedly Adds Usus Antiquior to Offerings 2009
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Concerns of brandjacking and Twitter-squatting aside – and increasingly these concepts seem hugely over-simplified if not redundant – unofficial is often good if not better.
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