Unofficial
[,ʌnə'fɪʃl]
Definition
(adj.) not having official authority or sanction; 'a sort of unofficial mayor'; 'an unofficial estimate'; 'he participated in an unofficial capacity' .
(adj.) not officially established; 'the early election returns are unofficial' .
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Definition
adj. not official.
Edited by Cecilia
Examples
- After a while we took it as a matter of course that the head of a company was an administrative dummy, with a dependence on unofficial power similar to that of Governor Dix on Boss Murphy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I think you want a little unofficial help. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- We are a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation, and unostentatiously, as becomes our unofficial state! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In response to these conflicting appeals appeared the common man, the unofficial outside independent man, thinking for himself. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You must look at it this way: what I know is unofficial, what he knows is official. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- That is the advantage of being unofficial. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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