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Noun

S: (n) official, functionary (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)

direct hyponym / full hyponym
direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term

S: (n) skilled worker, trained worker, skilled workman (a worker who has acquired special skills)

S: (n) aquanaut, oceanaut (a skilled worker who can live in underwater installations and participate in scientific research)
S: (n) armorer, armourer (a worker skilled in making armor or arms) "a sword made by a famous English armorer"
S: (n) aviator, aeronaut, airman, flier, flyer (someone who operates an aircraft)
S: (n) baker, bread maker (someone who bakes bread or cake)
S: (n) balloonist (someone who flies a balloon)
S: (n) butcher, slaughterer (a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market)
S: (n) calligrapher, calligraphist (someone skilled in penmanship)
S: (n) coiner, minter, moneyer (a skilled worker who coins or stamps money)
S: (n) cook (someone who cooks food)
S: (n) craftsman, artisan, journeyman, artificer (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)
S: (n) crewman, crew member (a member of a flight crew)
S: (n) cutter (someone whose work is cutting (as e.g. cutting cloth for garments))
S: (n) dental hygienist (someone trained to provide preventive dental service (cleaning teeth or taking x-rays))
S: (n) draftsman, draughtsman, draftsperson (a skilled worker who draws plans of buildings or machines)
S: (n) dyer (someone whose job is to dye cloth)
S: (n) editor, editor in chief (a person responsible for the editorial aspects of publication; the person who determines the final content of a text (especially of a newspaper or magazine))
S: (n) electrician, lineman, linesman (a person who installs or repairs electrical or telephone lines)
S: (n) engraver (a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching)
S: (n) esthetician, aesthetician (a worker skilled in giving beauty treatments (manicures and facials etc.))
S: (n) fisherman, fisher (someone whose occupation is catching fish)
S: (n) founder (a worker who makes metal castings)
S: (n) framer (someone who makes frames (as for pictures))
S: (n) fumigator (someone whose job is to fumigate)
S: (n) galvanizer, galvaniser (a skilled worker who coats iron or steel with zinc)
S: (n) gilder (someone whose occupation is to apply an overlay of gold or gilt)
S: (n) grip (worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made)
S: (n) harpooner, harpooneer (someone who launches harpoons)
S: (n) hunter, huntsman (someone who hunts game)
S: (n) indexer (someone who provides an index)
S: (n) laminator (a person who makes laminates (especially plastic laminates))
S: (n) lobsterman (a person whose occupation is catching lobsters)
S: (n) lockmaster, lockman, lockkeeper (a worker in charge of a lock (on a canal))
S: (n) mender, repairer, fixer (a skilled worker who mends or repairs things)
S: (n) mortician, undertaker, funeral undertaker, funeral director (one whose business is the management of funerals)
S: (n) mounter (a skilled worker who mounts pictures or jewels etc.)
S: (n) official, functionary (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
S: (n) oilman (a worker who produces or sells petroleum)
S: (n) optician, lens maker (a worker who makes glasses for remedying defects of vision)
S: (n) painter (a worker who is employed to cover objects with paint)
S: (n) perfecter (a skilled worker who perfects something) "although not the inventor he must be recognized as the perfecter of this technique"
S: (n) phlebotomist (someone who practices phlebotomy)
S: (n) plaiter (someone who plaits (hair or fabric etc.))
S: (n) plasterer (a worker skilled in applying plaster)
S: (n) plater (a skilled worker who coats articles with a film of metal (usually silver or gold))
S: (n) power worker, power-station worker (a worker at a power station)
S: (n) printer, pressman (someone whose occupation is printing)
S: (n) projectionist (the person who operates the projector in a movie house)
S: (n) refiner (one whose work is to refine a specific thing) "he was a sugar refiner"
S: (n) refinisher, renovator, restorer, preserver (a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture)
S: (n) riveter, rivetter (a worker who inserts and hammers rivets)
S: (n) router (a worker who routes shipments for distribution and delivery)
S: (n) sailor, crewman (any member of a ship's crew)
S: (n) serviceman, military man, man, military personnel (someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force) "two men stood sentry duty"
S: (n) shearer (a skilled worker who shears the wool off of sheep or other animals)
S: (n) skinner (a person who prepares or deals in animal skins)
S: (n) smith, metalworker (someone who works metal (especially by hammering it when it is hot and malleable))
S: (n) smith (someone who works at something specified)
S: (n) technician (someone whose occupation involves training in a specific technical process)
S: (n) tuner, piano tuner (someone who tunes pianos)
S: (n) turner (a lathe operator)
S: (n) turtler (someone whose occupation is hunting turtles)
S: (n) voicer (someone who regulates the tone of organ pipes)
S: (n) vulcanizer, vulcaniser (someone who vulcanizes rubber to improve its strength and resiliency)
S: (n) wallpaperer, wall-paperer (a worker who papers walls)
S: (n) wireman, wirer (a worker who installs and repairs electric wiring)

derivationally related form

S: (n) official (someone who administers the rules of a game or sport) "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"

Adjective

S: (adj) official (having official authority or sanction) "official permission"; "an official representative"

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antonym

W: (adj) unofficial [Opposed to: official] (not having official authority or sanction) "a sort of unofficial mayor"; "an unofficial estimate"; "he participated in an unofficial capacity"

derivationally related form

S: (adj) official (of or relating to an office) "official privileges"
S: (adj) official (verified officially) "the election returns are now official"
S: (adj) official, prescribed (conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline) "in prescribed order"

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