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Definition of official

relating to an authority or public body and its activities and responsibilities:the prime minister’s official engagements
having the approval or authorization of an authority or public body:members would know when industrial action is official official statistics
employed by an authority or public body in a position of authority:an official spokesman

a person holding public office or having official duties, especially as a representative of an organization or government department:a union official
(also official principal) British the presiding officer or judge of an archbishop’s, bishop’s, or archdeacon’s court.

Derivatives

Middle English (originally as a noun): via Old French from Latin officialis, from officium (see office)

Spell official and the related words officiate and officious with a double f.

Definition of official in the US English dictionary

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