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adj. Of or relating to an office or a post of authority: official duties.

adj. Authorized by a proper authority; authoritative: official permission.

adj. Holding office or serving in a public capacity: an official representative.

adj. Characteristic of or befitting a person of authority; formal: an official banquet.

adj. Authorized by or contained in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia or National Formulary. Used of drugs.

n. One who holds an office or position, especially one who acts in a subordinate capacity for an institution such as a corporation or governmental agency.

n. Sports A referee or umpire.

adj. Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.

adj. Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority

adj. Approved by authority; authorized.

adj. sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal

adj. Discharging an office or function.

adj. Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.

adj. Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.

n. An office holder invested with powers and authorities.

n. A person responsible for applying the rules of a game or sport in a competition.

adj. Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.

adj. Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority.

adj. Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopœia; appointed to be used in medicine. Cf. Officinal.

adj. Discharging an office or function.

n. One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant.

n. An ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.

Of or pertaining to office or the performance of the duties of an office: as, official duty; official cares or responsibility.

Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority; hence, authorized: as, an official statement or report.

Performing duties or offices; rendering useful service; ministering.

n. One who is invested with an office of a public nature; one holding a civil appointment: as, a government official; a railway official.

n. In English ecclesiastical law, a person appointed as judge by a bishop, chapter, or archdeacon, to hear causes in the ecclesiastical courts.

In pharm., authorized by the pharmacopœia of some country or countries: as, an official drug; an official preparation. In this sense recent, displacing the broader term officinal.

adj. (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution

n. a worker who holds or is invested with an office

adj. conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline

adj. of or relating to an office

adj. having official authority or sanction

adj. verified officially

n. someone who administers the rules of a game or sport

"I think this has to do with the *official* position that a country takes vs. what individual people do and believe, often in violation of the official policies and laws."

established    constituted    regular    authorized    formal    semiofficial    ex officio    formalised    formalized    authoritative   

private    informal    unofficial   

formal    official arms   

office    officiate    officer   

officinal   

functional    functionary    authoritative    public    curule   

artificial    beneficial    initial    judicial    prejudicial    sacrificial    superficial    unofficial   

officer    police    chief    general    government    minister    representative    agent    staff    manager