Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - unofficial

An unofficial action or statement is not organized or approved by a person or group in authority. Staff voted to continue an unofficial strike in support of seven colleagues who were dismissed last week... Official reports put the death toll at under one hundred, but unofficial estimates speak of at least two hundred dead. ? official ADJ: usu ADJ n • unofficially Some workers are legally employed, but the majority work unofficially with neither health nor wage security. ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV with cl