official
/ʌfˈɪʃʌl/
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Definitions
Adjective
having official authority or sanction; "official permission"; "an official representative"
Adjective
of or relating to an office; "official privileges"
Adjective Satellite
verified officially; "the election returns are now official"
Adjective Satellite
conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline; "in prescribed order"
Adjective Satellite
(of a church) given official status as a national or state institution
Noun
a worker who holds or is invested with an office
Noun
someone who administers the rules of a game or sport; "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"
More Specific Terms
administrative official
agent
apparatchik
appointee
bailiff
beadle
bureaucrat
caretaker
censor
census taker
church officer
city father
civil servant
commissar
Comptroller General
Comptroller of the Currency
diplomat
diplomatist
dispatcher
doorkeeper
elected official
enumerator
equerry
federal agent
fire marshall
fire warden
football official
forest fire fighter
hangover
hearing examiner
hearing officer
holdover
incumbent
Inquisitor
invalidator
judge
jurist
justice
licenser
linesman
mace
macebearer
macer
mandarin
notary
notary public
noticer
nullifier
officeholder
officer
political commissar
postmaster general
proconsul
prosecuting attorney
prosecuting officer
prosecutor
provincial
public prosecutor
quaestor
ranger
recorder
record-keeper
recruiter
ref
referee
registrar
regulator
returning officer
scorekeeper
scorer
sealer
searcher
starter
teller
timekeeper
timer
town clerk
ump
umpire
usher
vizier
voider
vote counter
weigher