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Synonyms for official

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for official

having or arising from authority

a person or group having the right and power to command, decide, rule, or judge

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a person having administrative or managerial authority in an organization

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Wilde's view of the cruelty of "officialism" helps explain the role of the--also anonymous--Warders in the poem.
(3) Officialism is a generic term that refers to a set of ideas used to justify an official discourse on certain topics.
Thus Estonian literature emerged through a number of difficulties along the 19th century, in a permanent opposition to ideological and cultural officialism, which flatly rejected any manifestation of national-autochthonous culture.
To comprehend the new configurations established by the officialism in the formation of professional education teachers, it is necessary that the analyzes of the professionalization of the teaching activity are expanded, putting at the center of the debate the work category, in order to understand it in its contradictory relations in the field of productive restructuration, of flexible accumulation and of the globalization process.
It is doubtful because the scheme of dividing Dacota and erecting two political corporations, with two elaborate establishments of officialism upon territory that is getting along admirably with only one, and that one of the simplest, least expensive kind, and for the proposed division of which there is no better reason or motive than the breed of political immigrants for more offices, is not a scheme that probably will find favor in the national legislature.
Scannell's New Jersey's First Citizens and State Guide ...: Genealogies and Biographies of Citizens of New Jersey with Informing Glimpses Into the State's History, Affairs, Officialism and Institutions.
His reasoning may, on the other hand, have rested upon a common antipathy to the stifling atmosphere of officialism during the Emergency.