unofficial

/ ˌʌnəˈfɪʃəl /

adjective

1. not official or formal

   an unofficial engagement

2. not confirmed officially

   an unofficial report

3. (of a strike) not approved by the strikers' trade union

4. (of a medicinal drug) not listed in a pharmacopoeia

Other Word Forms

• unofficially adverb

Example Sentences

The Democratic governor “shut down six different electricity generation plants. He put an unofficial moratorium on natural gas. He didn’t expand our nuclear capabilities.”

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He had five fights in boxing's unofficial capital as Hatton gave so many Mancunians an excuse to go to Sin City.

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Some employees who were casual fans and had visited Claude started pushing for him to become an unofficial mascot.

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The Argentine peso took another beating last week, with the unofficial rate used to settle financial-asset transactions breaking through the government’s upper band of 1,500 pesos to the dollar.

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He was taken to an unofficial prison facility where other inmates were allegedly beaten and abused and was by himself in a small room when three masked men handed him a single sheet of paper.

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Related Words

• informal 
• personal