officiallyof‧fi‧cial‧ly /əˈfɪʃəli/ ●●○ adverb 
The new church was officially opened on July 5th. Nothing has yet been officially announced. The scheme was officially launched in May. Has the company officially confirmed the appointment? the number of officially recognized political parties2[sentence adverb] according to what someone says publicly, even though this may not be true: Officially, the talks never took place.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Officially, Carter resigned, but everyone knows he was fired.
- At that stage, Britain and Germany were still not officially at war.
- The changes to borders were officially announced in the European Parliament.
- The details of the reforms are to be released officially next month.
- thirty square miles of woodland that has been officially designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
- Three players were officially reprimanded for fighting on the field.
- Although he is now officially bankrupt, the underworld mastermind still has a multi-million-pound property empire.
- Experts are now being called out to check this tress vital statistics, and establish it officially as a record breaker.
- In effect, it officially condoned segregation.
- Now we had to get the document that would officially make us husband and wife.
- So far, although Pottz was now officially numero uno, he still hadn't actually won in Hawaii.
- That makes me officially not part of the exalted Baby Boom generation.
- The motorway will be officially opened at the end of the month.
- Wanuskewin Heritage Park officially came into being in 1989 via an act of the Saskatchewan Legislature.
Longman Language Activatorwhen a lot of people can see you or know about what is happening
if you do something in public , you do it in a place where a lot of people can see or hear you: · Most people feel nervous about speaking in public.· Her husband was always nice to her in public, but treated her badly at home.appear in public (=use this to say that a famous person is seen in public by ordinary people): · The Prince has not appeared in public since the announcement of his divorce.
if you do or say something publicly , you do or say it so that everyone knows about it, and you do not try to keep it secret: · He was put in prison after publicly criticizing the military government.· They plan to announce their engagement publicly in the New Year.
public actions or events happen in a place where everyone can see or hear them: · It is one of the few countries where they still hold public executions.· In a public statement, Jackson and his wife announced their intention to get divorced.a public place (=a place where people can see or hear what you are doing): · Jeff was obviously calling from a public place.· Can we go somewhere quieter? This place is a bit public.
if you do something openly , you do it in a public place and without being embarrassed or trying to hide what you are doing: · He was the first person to talk openly on TV about having AIDS.· Drugs are sold openly on the city streets.
if something is done officially, it is done by someone in authority, and made known to the public: · The changes to borders were officially announced in the European Parliament.· The details of the reforms are to be released officially next month.· thirty square miles of woodland that has been officially designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY The new church was officially opened on July 5th. Nothing has yet been officially announced. The scheme was officially launched in May.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
The new church was officially opened on July 5th. Nothing has yet been officially announced. The scheme was officially launched in May.· Warning: none of these are officially open to the public.· Another review will be required before it can officially open.
· A few concerts were organised in connection with national holidays - for example on railworkers day or at officially sanctioned Youth parties.· Tolerance exists only for officially sanctioned ideas.· The trader gives his orders by open outcry and officially sanctioned hand signals.
VERB· Margaret had now officially accepted General Francis as her next case.
· This is patently not an area that has been officially acknowledged.· The city has never officially acknowledged the losses of the displaced residents and their descendants.· It had become aware of the blossoming void long before the situation at Princetown was officially acknowledged.· Although evidence of its existence has been growing since the mid-90s, no government has officially acknowledged involvement.
· It was from Camilla Parker-Bowles and had been written several days before the engagement was officially announced.· At least after her pregnancy was officially announced on November 5, 1981 Diana could publicly discuss her condition.· Clinton and Vice President Al Gore have yet to officially announce their candidacy.
· BGovernment officials say it is unlikely that anything will stop the project from being officially approved as early as January.· The controversial legislation has not yet been officially approved by Parliament.· Surveys had shown that many consumers mistakenly believed that these had been officially approved.
· Edenderry, hitherto a small village in the parish of Seagoe, became officially part of Portadown in 1840.· As the army and the navy became officially involved in the conquest of California, the major fighting shifted to the south.· There are dangers in becoming officially accepted.· After the conference, I decided not to do any more personal interviews until I officially became president that December.· Last week, you officially became a candidate for the White House when you appeared on the primary ballot in California.
· The All-Star break officially begins Friday, but the Clippers' extended weekend is coming just a few days too late.· Campaigning for municipal, legislative and presidential elections due in October and November officially began on May 23.· On June 24 the election campaign will officially begin, lasting four months until the voting in November for the Constituent Assembly.
· Apparently the movie has to be officially called off in some way and that takes time.· The Pap smear is officially called the Papanicolaou Test, after the doctor who invented it.· Load management, as this remote switching is called officially, is already practised by industrial consumers.· Following the transfer of power the opposition parties officially called off their agitation programmes and urged a return to work.
· Four hours after the fair had officially closed, there were still six women waiting to have their palms read.
· The club has officially confirmed the appointment nineteen days after Liam Brady resigned the position.· The newspaper's further claim that the police funded an Inkatha rally in January 1991 was later confirmed officially.· After the musical interlude, Gijssen declared himself satisfied and the time out was officially confirmed.· Last night pressure was mounting on Buckingham Palace to officially confirm or deny the claims.
· Once a child has written a bit of text, we can officially declare him an author.· Two days later, war was officially declared.
· It commemorated two arrests in 1961, in Jefferson Parish, for what were officially described as crimes against nature.
· My own training had officially ended and I had, for the past 36 hours, been in pre-race mode.· Parliamentary elections are scheduled for March 3 -- more than a year before the Socialists' term officially ends.· The Jubilee 2000 campaign, which officially ended last week, has been an extraordinary achievement.
· Although the national turnout was officially given as 60 percent, the elections were marked by a high rate of regional abstention.· The population of Hong Kong is officially given as 5.7 million, however it is probably around 6 million.· His birthday is officially given as 19 May 1890.· Its magnitude is officially given as below 9, so that it should be invisible with binoculars.
· On 27 November the Cabinet was accordingly officially informed of the whole matter for the first time.· Although shop stewards held a meeting yesterday, union organisers had not been informed officially of the authority's move.
· This means that they were officially known to be the only copies in any library in Britain and possibly in the world.· Very little was officially known about any of them.· It is not officially known whether this is attributable to the greenhouse effect or natural climate variability.
· This week Rover is officially launching its new executive car which will be made at Cowley.· But the speech officially launches a seven-week campaign that pits Riordan against state Sen.· This tax relief will no longer be available to new buyers of waiver of premium once the stakeholder is officially launched.· That announcement came as the Reform Party officially launched its own petition drive to win Texas ballot access in November.
· This has now been officially recognised and it is expected that extra student places will be provided to make up the deficiency.· They suggest that the disease is likely to be far more widespread than is officially recognised.· This emphasis on its international business was officially recognised by a change of name to John Stork International.· Their relationship to the officially recognised Liberal, Labour and Tory parties has been close.· Clearly, where the State decides to draw this line determines how many are officially recognised to be in poverty.· Yet although the problem is officially recognised, workers may not know the risks, say researchers.· The right for their tenants' association to be officially recognised.
· The role that Zaballeen waste recyclers of Cairo play in keeping the city clean is now at last officially recognized.· After years of persecution by colonial rulers, Orisha worshipers only recently had their religion officially recognized by the government.· The remoteness that tourists value has long been officially recognized in the mountains as an affliction.· Slavery was officially recognized as an institution in colonial laws by the 1660s.· The preservation was officially recognized by the Congregation of Rites in I 835.
· Rather criminal activity as officially recorded is by and large a masculine activity, but one in which women do participate.· The toll was never officially recorded.
· And Simpson has moved aggressively to protect those trademarks, even before the government officially registers them.
· They should not be officially released until they are in their final form.· The analysis was never officially released, because the data were incomplete, the agency says.
· Her last officially reported earnings were nearly $ 23m in 1997.
· Couldn't they have waited just another couple of weeks until he had officially retired at the end of the month?· Not that it ever officially retired, mind you.
· Blacks knew that every peaceful march and favorable court decision was being answered with acts of officially sanctioned violence.· Beyond the category of leaks described above exists a second category: the officially sanctioned leak calculated to produce a specific effect.· The live ammunition that I experienced was not officially sanctioned as being hazardous enough to be included.· At best, this organization achieves a grudging, superficial conformity to officially sanctioned patterns of thought and action.
· The campaign has already been in full swing for several months, even though it has not officially started.· All clubs received a letter warning them against organising practice or trial matches before the season officially starts on 1st September.
WORD FAMILYnounofficeofficerofficialofficialdomofficialeseofficiousnessadjectiveofficial ≠ unofficialofficiousadverbofficially ≠ unofficiallyofficiouslyverbofficiate
1publicly or formally: The new church was officially opened on July 5th. Nothing has yet been officially announced. The scheme was officially launched in May. Has the company officially confirmed the appointment? the number of officially recognized political parties2[sentence adverb] according to what someone says publicly, even though this may not be true: Officially, the talks never took place.