Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- With semi-official authority; as if from official sources or with official authority; in a semi-official manner: as, it is semi-officially announced; the statement is made semi-officially.
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Examples
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Its objective is semi-officially "stability," which in practice means silencing any individuality and stifling ideas that question the status quo.
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It would be hard to describe the sense of achievement I felt on graduation day, when we were semi-officially launched as new P. A.s (the board exam still loomed ahead).
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Monday is semi-officially my last day, and I don't start in CS until the 28th.
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Madigan, who semi-officially kicked-off his campaign on June 28 at Chicago's Gay Parade, wrote the following about his campaign finances:
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Only more recently did national intelligence director Dennis Blair semi-officially reposition the established stance (though it is more just an obvious fact now) when he appeared before Congress and declared the global economic crisis the new primus inter pares.
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Anyway, I could swear we've heard at least semi-officially that the first season will be 12 episodes?
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Sweet - I was semi-officially as sexy and therapeutic as Julia Roberts.
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Since the early 1950s, a number of meetings and contacts among what were semi-officially called “Arab Oil Experts” had been taking place in the Middle East.
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Since the early 1950s, a number of meetings and contacts among what were semi-officially called “Arab Oil Experts” had been taking place in the Middle East.
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It took several more years of legal wrangling until the Federal Reserve System semi-officially became a part of the federal government.
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