Official

Definition

official /ǝ'fÇʃl/ adj ၁။ တရားဝင္။ official responsibilities/powers/records ❍ in his official capacity as mayor. ၂။ တရားဝင္။ an official announcement/statement/decision ❍ the official biography of the President ❍ The news is almost certainly ture although it's not yet official. ၃။ အခမ္းအနား (သို႔) ႐ံုးသံုး၊ ႐ံုးဆန္ဆန္။ an official reception/dinner ❍ written in an official style. Compare UNOFFICIAL n အရာရိွ။ အမႈေဆာင္။ government officials ❍ the officials of a political party. ❏ officialdom /-dǝm/ n [U] ( fml often derog ) (က) အရာရိွေလာက။ အာဏာပိုင္။ persuade officialdom to take environmental protection seriously. (ခ) အရာရိွ ေလာက။ အာဏာပိုင္။ The play is an attack on petty officialdom. ❏ officialese /ǝfÇʃǝ'li:z/ n [U] ( derog ) ႐ံုးဆန္ဆန္ အသံုးအႏႈန္း။ The report is refreshingly free of the usual officialese. ❏ officially /ǝ'fÇʃǝli/ adv ၁။ တရားဝင္။ 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။ တရားဝင္။ Officially, the director is in a meeting – actually, he's playing golf. ❏ official receiver n = RECEIVER ၄

Examples

1. There will be an official investigation into last week’s accident.
2. You’ll have to get official permission from the headteacher.
3. China’s official representatives at the United Nations
4. Spanish is the country’s official language.
5. His name did not appear in the official report.
6. The official version is that the whole thing was an accident.
7. It’s official – the princess is to marry next year.
8. A list of my official duties
9. The official country residence of the Prime Minister