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