official

Adjective
  1. Having official authority or sanction (synset 301636580)
    "official permission"; "an official representative"
    also: authorised, authorized - endowed with authority
    similar to:
  2. Of or relating to an office (synset 303002971)
    "official privileges"
  3. Verified officially (synset 301638779)
    "the election returns are now official"
    similar to: confirmed - having been established or made firm or received the rite of confirmation
  4. Conforming to set usage, procedure, or discipline (synset 301966728)
    "in prescribed order"
    similar to: regular - in accordance with fixed order or procedure or principle
    same as: prescribed
  5. (of a church) given official status as a national or state institution (synset 301640424)
    referred to in: church, church service - a service conducted in a house of worship
    similar to: constituted, established - brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established
Noun
  1. A worker who holds or is invested with an office (synset 110392072)
    is a type of: skilled worker, skilled workman, trained worker - a worker who has acquired special skills
    subtypes:
    • apparatchik - a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization)
    • appointee - an official who is appointed
    • bailiff - an officer of the court who is employed to execute writs and processes and make arrests etc.
    • beadle - a minor parish official who serves a ceremonial function
    • administrative official, bureaucrat - an official of a bureaucracy
    • caretaker - an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily
    • censor - a person who is authorized to read publications or correspondence or to watch theatrical performances and suppress in whole or in part anything considered obscene or politically unacceptable
    • census taker, enumerator - someone who collects census data by visiting individual homes
    • church officer - a church official
    • city father - an important municipal official
    • civil servant - a public official who is a member of the civil service
    • commissar, political commissar - an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit
    • comptroller general - a United States federal official who supervises expenditures and settles claims against the government
    • comptroller of the currency - a United States federal official who regulates the national banks
    • diplomat, diplomatist - an official engaged in international negotiations
    • elected official - official who won the office in a free election
    • equerry - an official charged with the care of the horses of princes or nobles
    • fire marshall - an official who is responsible for the prevention and investigation of fires
    • fire warden, forest fire fighter, ranger - an official who is responsible for managing and protecting an area of forest
    • hearing examiner, hearing officer - an official appointed by a government agency to conduct an investigation or administrative hearing so that the agency can exercise its statutory powers
    • hangover, holdover - an official who remains in office after his term
    • incumbent, officeholder - the official who holds an office
    • inquisitor - an official of the ecclesiastical court of the Inquisition
    • invalidator, nullifier, voider - an official who can invalidate or nullify
    • judge, jurist, justice - a public official authorized to decide questions brought before a court of justice
    • licenser - an official who can issue a license or give authoritative permission (especially one who licenses publications)
    • mace, macebearer, macer - an official who carries a mace of office
    • mandarin - any high government official or bureaucrat
    • notary, notary public - someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions
    • noticer - someone who gives formal notice
    • officeholder, officer - someone who is appointed or elected to an office and who holds a position of trust
    • agent, federal agent - any agent or representative of a federal agency or bureau
    • provincial - (Roman Catholic Church) an official in charge of an ecclesiastical province acting under the superior general of a religious order
    • postmaster general - the official in charge of the national postal service
    • proconsul - an official in a modern colony who has considerable administrative power
    • prosecuting attorney, prosecuting officer, prosecutor, public prosecutor - a government official who conducts criminal prosecutions on behalf of the state
    • quaestor - any of several public officials of ancient Rome (usually in charge of finance and administration)
    • recruiter - an official who enlists personnel for military service
    • record-keeper, recorder, registrar - someone responsible for keeping records
    • regulator - an official responsible for control and supervision of a particular activity or area of public interest
    • returning officer - the official in each electorate who holds the election and returns the results
    • sealer - an official who affixes a seal to a document
    • searcher - a customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items
    • teller, vote counter - an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)
    • town clerk - the official who keeps a town's records
    • doorkeeper, usher - an official stationed at the entrance of a courtroom or legislative chamber
    • vizier - a high official in a Muslim government (especially in the Ottoman Empire)
    • weigher - an official who weighs and records the weight
    same as: functionary
  2. Someone who administers the rules of a game or sport (synset 110391775)
    "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"
    is a type of: adjudicator - a person who studies and settles conflicts and disputes
    subtypes:
    • football official - an official who enforces the rules at a football game
    • linesman - official (in tennis, soccer, football, etc.) who assists the referee in some way (especially by watching for out of bounds or offside)
    • ref, referee - (sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play
    • scorekeeper, scorer - an official who records the score during the progress of a game
    • dispatcher, starter - the official who signals the beginning of a race or competition
    • timekeeper, timer - (sports) an official who keeps track of the time elapsed
    • ump, umpire - an official at a baseball game

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