English-Spanish translations for official

• oficial
  Pero la Europa oficial está en punto muerto. Yet official Europe is at a dead end.
  Se trata de una notificación oficial. This time it is an official notification.
  El Parlamento está por recibir una carta oficial. An official letter is on its way to Parliament.
• funcionario
  Por último, la cuestión de los funcionarios. Finally, the issue of officials.
  Nuestros funcionarios seguirán el caso. Our officials will follow the case.
  Primero sobre los donativos y luego sobre los funcionarios. Firstly on gifts and then on officials.
• juez

Definition of official

• Of or pertaining to an office or public trust
• Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority
• Approved by authority; authorized
• Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal
• Discharging an office or function
• Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant
• True, real, beyond doubt
• An office holder invested with powers and authorities.not limited to government--
• A person responsible for applying the rules of a game or sport in a competition

Examples

• official duties
• an official statement or report
• The Official Strategy Guide
• Despite these testimonies, "accidental asphyxiation" remains his official cause of death.
• an official drug or preparation
• Well, its official: you lost your mind!
• David Barnes was the official charged with the running of the sports club
• Last year, Yulong Snow Mountain park officials reported that 2.6 million visitors came to the mountain
• In most soccer games there are three officials: the referee and two linesmen

Related words

• officially
• unofficial
• officials
• unofficially
• inofficial
• officialdom
• officialism
• semi-official
• semiofficial