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0 formally and in a way agreed to or arranged by people in positions of authority:
- The royal engagement was announced officially this morning.
- Well, officially I am on holiday this week, but I'm just catching up on some reports I have to finish.
- He has not visited the country officially since his election, only in a private capacity.
1 formally and in a way that is agreed to and arranged by people in positions of authority:
- The proposed merger was announced officially by the CEO today.
2 as stated or accepted by people publicly, although it may not be true:
- Officially he's in charge but in fact his deputy makes most of the decisions.
3 relating to a position of responsibility:
- She has been asked to represent the department officially.

She is expected to announce officially her candidacy for president early next week.
The new hospital will be officially opened by the mayor on Tuesday.
Although she's not officially our boss, she's in effective control of the office.
They officially designated the area (as) unsuitable for human habitation.
An elderly man from Hull has confounded doctors by recovering after he was officially declared dead.
They are offered as an open-ended entitlement to those urban households whose income falls below the officially defined poverty thresholds, with variations among cities.
Nowadays most value theorists (in economics, anyway) tend (officially, anyway) to be subjectivists of one sort or another.
However, four mitigating factors make an explosion of suits unlikely, even were this more expansive form of liability officially recognized.