Antonym: unofficial. Similar words: officially, artificial, officious, efficient, efficiency, sufficient, judicial, office. Meaning: [ə'fɪʃl] 
n. 1. a worker who holds or is invested with an office 2. someone who administers the rules of a game or sport. adj. 1. having official authority or sanction 2. of or relating to an office 3. verified officially 4. conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline 5. (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution.
n. 1. a worker who holds or is invested with an office 2. someone who administers the rules of a game or sport. adj. 1. having official authority or sanction 2. of or relating to an office 3. verified officially 4. conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline 5. (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution. 
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241. He received an official communication about the reorganization of the Ministry.
242. He had managed to extricate himself from most of his official duties.
243. The official version of events is that the police were attacked and were just trying to defend themselves.
244. My plans are ripening - now all I need is official approval.
245. The official censors have excised the controversial sections of the report.
246. The official transfer of ownership will take a few days to complete.
247. He watched the Customs official peer into the driver's window.
248. The official line was that the troops were there to protect the King.
249. A major enquiry is underway after the death of a union official.
250. One official dismissed the ceasefire as a mere propaganda exercise.
251. The old official club website address has been taken over by cybersquatters.
252. The Prime Minister's support got the official party man in.
253. Civil Servants are required to sign the Official Secrets Act.
254. In public he supported the official policy, but privately he was sure it would fail.
255. Passengers may be set down and picked up only at the official stops.
256. His identity of a foreign official exempted him from the customs duties for these basic necessities.
257. The official story was that the singer had broken his arm falling in the shower.
258. They dined in an official capacity with other European leaders.
259. No petty official was going to stop Philip from getting into the enclosure. He would just snap his fingers at them.
260. The remit of this official inquiry is to investigate the reasons for the accident.
261. The People's Daily is the official organ of the Chinese Communist Party.
262. An official inquiry has been launched into the cause of the accident.
263. Official reports in Algeria suggest that calm is returning to the country.
264. These three official bodies are the guardians of the nation's countryside.
265. The fact that the number of deaths from cancer in the area has doubled surely gives the lie to official assurances of the safety of nuclear power.
266. Under the law,[www.Sentencedict.com] every citizen has access to their official records.
267. She was born in India, where her father was a British official.
268. No 10 is the official residence of the British Prime Minister.
269. We only received the official signatures at the eleventh hour.
270. The Countryside Commission was set up as the government's official watchdog on conservation.
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