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How to pronounce “official”
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Pronunciation guide for official
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of official with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers
board is that we don't have an official
- Definition summary
- Of or about an office or public trust.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce official
Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

board is that we don't have an official
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “official”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Of or about an office or public trust.
- Derived from the proper office or officer, or the appropriate authority; made or communicated by authority
- Approved by authority; authorized.
- (pharmacology) Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
- Discharging an office or function.
- Relating to an office, especially a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
- Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
- (informal) True, real, beyond doubt.
- (pharmacology) Listed in a national pharmacopeia.
- [Noun]
- An office holder, a person holding an official position in government, sports, or other organization.
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