Definition of official

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Official (a.) One who holds an office; esp., a subordinate executive officer or attendant..

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Prefecture :: Prefecture (n.) The office, position, or jurisdiction of a prefect; also, his official residence..
Opinion :: Opinion (n.) The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a counselor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted..
Secretary :: Secretary (n.) A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches, public or private papers, records, and the like; an official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to correspondence, and transacts other business, for an association, a public body, or an individual..
Consul :: Consul (n.) An official commissioned to reside in some foreign country, to care for the commercial interests of the citizens of the appointing government, and to protect its seamen..
Report :: Report (v. t.) To return or present as the result of an examination or consideration of any matter officially referred; as, the committee reported the bill witth amendments, or reported a new bill, or reported the results of an inquiry..
Extra-official :: Extra-official (a.) Not prescribed by official duty.
Denounce :: Denounce (v. t.) To make known in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil).
Chaperon :: Chaperon (n.) A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood..
Proces Verbal :: Proces verbal () An authentic minute of an official act, or statement of facts..
Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..
Officialism :: Officialism (n.) The state of being official; a system of official government; also, adherence to office routine; red-tapism..
Denouncement :: Denouncement (n.) Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation..
Mandarin :: Mandarin (n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
Mandarinate :: Mandarinate (n.) The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.
Cathedral :: Cathedral (a.) Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative..
Sit :: Sit (v. t.) To occupy a place or seat as a member of an official body; as, to sit in Congress..
Jenkins :: "Jenkins (n.) name of contempt for a flatterer of persons high in social or official life; as, the Jenkins employed by a newspaper..
Hall-mark :: Hall-mark (n.) The official stamp of the Goldsmiths' Company and other assay offices, in the United Kingdom, on gold and silver articles, attesting their purity. Also used figuratively; -- as, a word or phrase lacks the hall-mark of the best writers..
Job :: "Job (n.) A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business..
Return :: Return (v. t.) Hence, to elect according to the official report of the election officers..
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