Official

an official (noun) - a person holding a position of authority in the government or an organisation

official (adjective) - approved by the government or someone in authority

officially (adverb)

officiate (verb) - oversee a ceremony or sports event

officious (adjective) - (negative) when a person is always telling other people what to do

official enquiry
an official enquiry into Michael Jackson's strange death

official figures
official production figures
the official figures do not look reasonable
official statistics
the official unemployment rate for the region

official policy
Official U.S. military policy discouraged its personnel from consorting and fraternizing with the native female population

offer an official apology
the official national position on this issue

a government official
government official responsible for an important economic ministry
a royal official
a provincial official

a corporate official
an official from the ministry
a permanent official at the ministry

a local official
a part-time local official
an elected official

appoint an official
consult with local officials
bribed an official, went to jail
attempted to bribe local officials

official greed
detailed the causes of lax public enforcement of prohibition, such as police corruption, official greed, propaganda by the liquor industry, bootlegging, gangster activity, public apathy

official acts
official action
a predictable combination of weak governments and explosive politics hinders decisive official action on the problem

the official acts of states
the most serious threats to sovereignty today do not necessarily come from the official acts of other states

official corruption
American adoptive parents today are incredulous about the charges of official corruption and baby selling

an official lie
you may have read by now the official lie about this outrage

official acknowledgment
on an official basis
an official report
an official spokesperson
expressed official interest in the project

official records
official school records
Self-reported grades are highly correlated with actual grades taken from official school records

an official reception
official activities

an official opening
you are invited to the official opening of the new museum

an official language of a country

an official announcement
the military appointments have not been officially announced yet

officially announce
the election results are about to be officially announced

official title
his official title is Special Advisor to the Prime Minister
the official title "Patroness of New Spain" which Pope Benedict XIV providentially designated to her

official responsibilities
in an official capacity
she is not visiting her in any official capacity

she is visiting here on official business

the official explanation differs from the actual one
the official reason 

official mandate
get an official mandate to carry out the task

the official end
it is not unusual to continue to lose jobs after the official end of a recession

an official start
although spring has its official start three weeks into March, a mere 14% claim to use the calendar

report the incident to the official responsible for handling these cases

official residence
the official residence of the Prime Minister

an official visit
the Prime Minister is on a short official visit to the United States

a senior official
a junior official
a low-ranking official
a high-ranking official
the low-ranking official officiously ordered them out of his office

official rules
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official member
an official member of the international organisation

official photographs and news broadcasts

official practices
official practices differ from actual practices

official government policy

official publication
an official publication of the U. S. government

an official stationed at the customs checkpoint
an official at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
the first trip by a U.S. official to China since 1949

an official Museum volunteer

an official guide
an official guidebook

an official vote
the bill came up for the official vote

official development assistance

official budgetary promises

official speeches at government press conferences

the official so-called truth
the mediums of the Internet and airwaves insist on challenging the official so-called truth

the number of official reports of man-eating lions fell to zero during the tenure of a particularly powerful official

an official culture
we really don't have an official culture like that of the old Soviet Union

a film's official subject matter

official teaching
the Official Catholic Social Teaching

the official repository for the archives of the American Missionary Association (AMA)
official and institutionalized cultural expressions

official census
took an official census to determine who was a tribal citizen
an official survey

Posted by Jon Fernquest at 11:46 AM