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unofficially /ʌnəˈfɪʃ(ə)li /adverb1In 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.
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