Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. By virtue of office or position.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. By virtue of office (and without other especial authority): as, a justice of the peace may ex officio take sureties of the peace: also used adjectively: as, an ex officio member of a body.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. by virtue of an office or position
- adv. by virtue of position
Etymologies
- Latin (Wiktionary)
- Latin ex officiō : ex, from + officiō, ablative of officium, office. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But now I'm president of the temple, and that makes me chairman ex officio of the Building Committee and I will not be denied.”
“As Bailiff of Stratford, he was ex officio a justice of the peace; and two warrants are extant, granted by him in December, 1568, for the arrest of John Ball and Richard Walcar on account of debts; both of them bearing witness that “he had a mark to himself, like an honest, plain-dealing man.””
“The Normal College, in Randolph County, has been placed partly under the direction of the State, and as Superintendent of Common Schools I am ex officio Secretary of the Board of Trustees.”
First Annual Report of the General Superintendent of Common Schools
“Interesting his father was listed as an ex officio member of the board, and Lew Parmina was now listed as CEO.”
Lists
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POL - legislation
US Congress/Senate + Westminster + European Parliament usage
across the desk, act, action, adjournment, adjournment sine die, adoption, advise and consent, amendment, analysis of the b..., apportionment, appropriation, appropriations limit and 652 more...
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Latin
tempus fugit, ad absurdum, ad hominem, ad infinitum, ad nauseam, deus ex machina, in absentia, in loco parentis, in vino veritas, ipso facto, mea culpa, memento mori and 36 more...
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EU - Latin in the EU
ad hominem, a priori, ab ovo, acta non verba, ad infinitum, ad lib, addendum, bona officia, canis canem edit, communis opinio, conditio sine qua..., confer and 40 more...
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Pop Latin
Commonly used Latin expressions
viva voce, vide supre, vide, supra, stet, status quo, sine qua non, sine die, sic, quid pro quo, pro rata, pro bono and 24 more...
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diplopic, dolorous, farrago, surety, scuttlebutt, Arabesque, infarct, neurasthenia, lambent, expurge, univocal, simper and 395 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Idioms
Faux pas, Fait accompli, Laissez-faire, Ménage à trois, Par excellence, Vis-à-vis, À la carte, À la mode, Au contraire, Carte blanche, Cinéma vérité, Crème de la crème and 55 more...
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That Smarts
Latin stuffs
cogito, ergo sum, cogito, ergo sunt, a priori, argumentum ad nau..., et al., ex cathedra, ex hypothesi, ex officio, fiat lux, ipso facto, literati, memento mori and 5 more...
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jwjarvis There shall be one or more faculty/staff advisors who shall be members ex officio with no voting privileges Oct 1, 2010