Noun

• S: (n) official, functionary (a worker who holds or is invested with an office)
• 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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• 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)
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• S: (adj) established, constituted (brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established) "the established social order"; "distrust the constituted authority"; "a team established as a member of a major league"; "enjoyed his prestige as an established writer"; "an established precedent"; "the established Church"
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