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unofficial

Something that is unofficial is not approved by some authority. The voting results are unofficial because they have not been approved by the committee yet.

unofficial

not having official authority or sanction a sort of unofficial mayor an unofficial estimate he participated in an unofficial capacity not officially established the early election returns are unofficial

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I'm only an unofficial adviser to them.
In my unofficial capacity, I'll see what I can do.
I had sort of unofficial orders to come and see you because there's a rumour in Montevideo that you perished with your ship.
Since Granddad died, Uncle Hoyt's been unofficial advisor to half of Texas.
What about an unofficial level?
Unofficial?
It's an unofficial visit. They don't want any protocol.
Quite unofficial, of course.
The memorandum is quite unofficial but important in order to complete the record.
We have received orders that sometime soon this district is to have a little unofficial demonstration.
Just a little unofficial demonstration.
So will trade union leaders faced with the threat of mass unemployment and militant unofficial strike action.
There's nothing to tell. It's a purely unofficial experiment.
Unofficial police sources say it was a professional hit which is committed by someone from cities in the east, Maybe Detroit or New York.
Very kind Mrs. Jellison I'll put you first on my unofficial list.
Well, you see, the ulcer is strictly unofficial, Lieutenant.
I agreed to keep your condition unofficial only as long as you kept your part of the bargain.
What about some club fights, tank towns, unofficial?
When Quarenghi and I discussed your trip to America. I had the distinct impression it would be an unofficial one.
And my unofficial function?
I'm the unofficial minister of defense of an unrecognized government. I have no authority to requisition supplies.
Your Excellency, now that Officer Hedley's unofficial assistance is terminated, may I carry on the operation? We have work to do.
Now, I've checked through channels, so now it's time for me to pursue some unofficial sources.
Officially yes, but this mission is strictly unofficial.
The unofficial strike committee at fords Have increased their demands To 13 reasons why henry iii was a bad king.
Sometime soon this district is to have a little unofficial demonstration.
Mr. Frank Davis, official delegate, was our unofficial representative.
Now look here, Brown, this is private and unofficial, and I'm being human for once.
Now, it's strictly unofficial, so not a word to anyone.
Unofficial estimates are that the asteroid will land somewhere on the North American continent, but no two experts agree exactly where that will be.
And the Bank of France is going to have to act as a corrupt unofficial broker.
No, no, no. Just a little unofficial demonstration.
This is unofficial.
It was all wildly unofficial. We had to go in disguise.
For them it's an unofficial sanction.
Something unofficial.
I have an unofficial relationship with this dude.

News and current affairs

The informal and unofficial rationale leaking out of the Fed for its inaction had two parts.
Although there had been several unofficial statements by Kim Jong-Il's regime admitting that North Korea possessions nuclear arsenal, the announcement was the first official confirmation.
The EU's reluctant number two country has served unofficial notice that it, too, does not plan to abide by its deficit-reduction promises.
With an average of 35 reported murders a year (unofficial estimates run three times higher), Mexico ranks second in the world, after Brazil, for anti-gay crimes.
Arab Spring governments condemned the outrageous movie smearing the Prophet of Islam, but they should have stressed that American official and unofficial bodies had nothing to do with the film's production.
He needs to make it clear to every armed Palestinian that there will be no tolerance for any unofficial group carrying arms or conducting military attacks from Palestinian territory.
Making matters worse, the two countries have, to all intents and purposes, broken off both unofficial and - with scarcely an exception - official dialogue.
So it is essential that the Bush and Putin administrations begin wide-ranging dialogues - at both the unofficial and official levels - in order to take their relations out of their semi-nose-dive.
A group of 250 people's deputies, formed in the summer of 1989, became the center of opposition. Sakharov became their unofficial leader, but Yeltsin was the most popular figure.
Later, as a dissident, Havel continued writing and became a politician of sorts as the unofficial leader of the anti-communist opposition.
With tensions much higher today, however, such acts - even if carried out by unknown or unofficial groups - can trigger war.
Indeed, by the early 2000s, more than four-fifths of an average North Korean's household income comprised unofficial earnings from market activities.
But China's rulers permit discussion of the Cultural Revolution only within this official framework, suppressing any and all unofficial reflections.
Germany and South Korea, however, will gain little, and risk much, if they downgrade their alliance ties in favor of commercially motivated, if unofficial, neutrality.

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