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officialese

/əfɪʃəˈliːz/

US pronunciation
American sound/əfɪʃəˈliːz/
əfɪʃəˈliːz
Syllables
4 syllables
Stress
4th syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

əfɪʃə - ˈliːz -> officialese

Myanmar meaning

ရုံးသုံး၊ တရားဝင် စာချုပ်စာတမ်များ၏ အသုံးအနှုန်း ( စာ၊ စကား )။

Full entry

official /ǝ'fÇʃl/ adj

၁။ တရားဝင်။ official responsibilities/powers/records ❍ in his official capacity as mayor.
၂။ တရားဝင်။ an official announcement/statement/decision ❍ the official biography of the President ❍ The news is almost certainly ture although it's not yet official.
၃။ အခမ်းအနား (သို့) ရုံးသုံး၊ ရုံးဆန်ဆန်။ an official reception/dinner ❍ written in an official style. Compare UNOFFICIAL
n အရာရှိ။ အမှုဆောင်။ government officials ❍ the officials of a political party.
❏ officialdom /-dǝm/ n [U] (fml often derog ) (က) အရာရှိလောက။ အာဏာပိုင်။ persuade officialdom to take environmental protection seriously. (ခ) အရာရှိ လောက။ အာဏာပိုင်။ The play is an attack on petty officialdom.
❏ officialese /ǝfÇʃǝ'li:z/ n [U] (derog ) ရုံးဆန်ဆန် အသုံးအနှုန်း။ The report is refreshingly free of the usual officialese.
❏ officially /ǝ'fÇʃǝli/ adv
၁။ တရားဝင်။ I've been officially invited to the wedding. ❍ We already know who's got the job, even though we haven't yet been told officially.
၂။ တရားဝင်။ Officially, the director is in a meeting – actually, he's playing golf.
❏ official receiver n = RECEIVER ၄

More examples
  • There will be an official investigation into last week’s accident.
  • You’ll have to get official permission from the headteacher.
  • China’s official representatives at the United Nations
  • Spanish is the country’s official language.
  • His name did not appear in the official report.
  • The official version is that the whole thing was an accident.
  • It’s official – the princess is to marry next year.
  • A list of my official duties
  • The official country residence of the Prime Minister
Synonyms
bureaucrat, administrator, representative, spokesperson, officer, executive, CEO, President, accredited, agent, allowed, approved, authentic, authenticated, authoritative, authorized, big shot, bona fide, boss, brains, brass, canonical, cathedral, ceremonious, certified, chancellor, civil servant, cleared, commissioner, comptroller, conclusive, correct, customary, decided, decisive, definite, dignitary, director, endorsed, established, ex cathedra, ex officio, exec, fitting, formal, front office, functionary, governor, head person, higher-up, incumbent, leader, legitimate, licensed, magistrate, manager, marshal, mayor, minister, officeholder, okay, ordered, orthodox, panjandrum, positive, precise, premier, proper, real, recognized, rightful, sanctioned, secretary, suitable, top, top brass, top dog, top drawer, treasurer, true, valid
Antonyms
dishonest, employee, false, imprecise, improper, incorrect, indefinite, inexact, informal, invalid, unacceptable, unauthorized, unofficial, unsanctioned, unsuitable
Cross references
bureaucratadministratorrepresentativespokespersonofficerexecutiveCEOPresidentaccreditedagentallowedapprovedauthenticauthenticatedauthoritativeauthorizedbig shotbona fidebossbrainsbrasscanonicalcathedralceremoniouscertifiedchancellorcivil servantcleared
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