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# unofficially

«unofficially» in Mova's school dictionary: **not in an official or formal way; not approved, announced…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (unofficially)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Unofficially means not in an official or formal way; not approved, announced or recorded by the people in charge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unofficially/#m1)

2) Unofficially can mean privately or secretly, before something is officially said. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unofficially/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday and school life: «unofficially, he's team captain», unofficial records, nicknames. In news: «unofficially, sources say». It tells the reader something is true or accepted but not formally approved yet.

### examples

- Unofficially, Mia is the class's best speller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unofficially/#x1)
- The race was unofficially timed with a phone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unofficially/#x2)
- He was unofficially in charge of the snacks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unofficially/#x3)
- Unofficially, the teacher said we'd get a longer break. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unofficially/#x4)
- The hill is unofficially called Dragon's Back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unofficially/#x5)
- The record was set unofficially, so it doesn't count. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unofficially/#x6)

### note

From «unofficial» + «-ly»; double f. Opposite: «officially». An unofficial record usually does not count in a competition.

### In the corpora

- [Only about a dozen countries officially recognise Taiwan as a country, though many more trade and talk with it unofficially.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/politics/29-taiwan-china-and-the-word-tensions/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unofficially» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unofficially/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.