formal procedures
a formal announcement
I am the formal leader of the project but the everyday management is in the hands of my assistant.
1 Formal language, clothes, and behaviour are suitable for serious or official occasions:
2 Formal education or training is received in a school or college:
3 A formal garden is carefully designed and kept according to a plan, and it is not allowed to grow naturally.
4 a dance at which women wear fashionable, expensive dresses and men wear tuxedos or similar clothes
5 using an agreed and often official or traditional way of doing things:
6 a dance at which women wear fashionable, expensive dresses and men wear tuxedos or similar clothes
8 done publicly or officially:
9 used to describe clothing that is suitable for important or official occasions:
10 used to describe education or training that is received in a school or college:
Lacking formal education, he worked as a sharecropper and journeyman laborer to support his family.
11 used to describe businesses that are officially recognized, pay taxes, etc.:
In Mexico small and medium-sized enterprises generate six out of ten jobs in the formal sector.
The US lodged a formal protest against the arrest of the foreign reporters.
My client accepts the formal apology without prejudice to any further legal action she may decide to take.
A formal protest was made by the German team about their disqualification from the relay final.
Most modern kings and queens rule their countries only in a formal way, without real power.
Is it considered improper to wear such a short skirt to a formal occasion?
It's incorrect to address people by their first names at these formal events.
His casual behaviour was wholly inappropriate for such a formal occasion.
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