unofficially
/ʌnəˈfɪʃ(ə)li
/adverb
1In a manner that is not officially authorized or confirmed: the assets of the family are unofficially estimated to be $8 billion...
- The dress code at the laboratory is unofficially more casual than at the rest of the company.
- Where most detective fiction involves a city unofficially run by gangsters, here the villains are outwardly in control.
- The summer movie season unofficially begins during the first weekend of May.
1.1British Used to indicate strike action not called or endorsed by the union to which the strikers belong: thousands of railwaymen struck unofficially for higher wages...
- Thousands of civil servants have defied anti-union laws to unofficially walk out of work in the last two weeks.
- Union leaders are worried that other postal workers may strike unofficially.
- These workers have walked out unofficially on strike as a protest against racism.
- out of a clear blue sky
- out of a clear sky
- out of action
- out of a job
- out-of-area
- out-of-balance
- out-of-body
- out-of-body experience
- out of bounds
- out of breath
- out of commission
- out of context
- out of control
- out of countenance
- out of court
- out-of-court settlement
- out of danger
- out of date
- out-of-dateness
- out-of-doorness
- out-of-door relief
- out of doors
- out-of-fashion
- out-of-fashioned
- outoffice