non-officialadj.n.

1833 N. Amer. Rev. Jan. 119 The confederation of the Diet has been misunderstood, and generally confounded with non-official confederations, which were entirely different.

1850 Punch Aug. 57/2 We subjoin a specimen of the two styles of reports, the one official, and the other non-official.

1900 Fortn. Rev. Jan. 49 Diplomatists now confess—what the non-official world recognised years ago—that no solution of the difficulty is possible.

1970 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 82 215 Analyses of a variety of official and non~official documents.

1993 Eng. Today Oct. 6/1 (heading) Non-native speakers of English as a non-official language.

1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 12 May 302/2 Eventually, all the non-officials except two, took themselves off to Pinapoor.

1894 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 57 168 All the members are either officials holding various positions as statistical experts..or are professors and other non-officials well-known for their researches in statistical science.

1910 Blackwood's Mag. Nov. 711/2 There is no definite cleavage between officials and non-officials.

1932 W. Lewis Filibusters in Barbary ii. ix. 160 Every non-official banded to circumvent this touristic trespass (by passive resistance and by strategic vanishes).

1998 Jrnl. Southern Afr. Stud. 24 271 Every part of the country was overseen by a local Joint Management Committee.., which coordinated the action of government agencies within its area, and even brought some non-officials within its scope.