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Ex Officio

Definitions: Ex Officio

Ex Officio

Adjective

1. By virtue of an office or position; "the head of the department serves as an ex officio member of the board".

Adverb

1. By virtue of position; "the president sat on the committee ex officio".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Ex Officio

DomainDefinitions

Law

(literally: out of or because of one's office) The act of holding one office by reason of holding another. For example, the Lieutenant Governor is, ex officio, a member of the University of California Board of Regents. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Ex Officio

Synonym: by right of office (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Ex Officio

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Director

Adverb: ex officio.

Dueness

Adverb: duly, ex officio, de jure; by right, by divine right; jure divino, Dei gratia, in the name of.

Government

Ruling; Verb: regnant, gubernatorial; imperious; authoritative, executive, administrative, clothed with authority, official, departmental, ex officio, imperative, peremptory, overruling, absolute; hegemonic, hegemonical; authorized; (due).

Truth

Genuine, authentic, legitimate; orthodox; a; official, ex officio.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Ex Officio

English words defined with "ex officio": Ex officiis. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Ex Officio" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Swedish (ex officio).

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Non-Fiction Usage: Ex Officio

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Business

In cases where suppliers or health care providers do not make applications, MHW/HIRA has the authority to list products ex officio within an undetermined time frame. (references)

Economic History

Kiribati

The unicameral House of Assembly (Maneaba) has 41 members: 39 elected representatives; one appointed member from Banaba, and the Attorney General on an ex officio basis. (references)

Ghana

An executive council was responsible for formulating policy, with most African members drawn from the legislature and including three ex officio members appointed by the governor. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

It comprises the following ex officio members: the President of the Republic, the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense, the President of the National Assembly and the Chairman of the Social and Economic Council. (references)

Political Economy

IRELAND

The governor of the Irish Central Bank (currently Maurice O'Connell) will, ex officio, have one vote in the ECB's 17-member monetary policy committee, although each national central bank governor in the committee will be expected to disregard the individual performances of their own national economies in formulating a common monetary policy for the euro area. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Expression: Ex Officio

Expression using "ex officio": ad ex officio. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Ex Officio

Language Translations for "ex officio"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

për shkak të detyrës, në lidhje me post. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏حق بحكم المنصب, ‏تمتع بنفس الصفات. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

служебно (officially), по задължение. (various references)

   

Czech

  

èestnì (decently, honestly). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

itseoikeutettu (as a matter of course). (various references)

   

French

  

de plein droit, ès qualités. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

αυτοδικαίωσ. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

בתוקף "תפקי". (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

hivatalosan (formally, officially), hivatalból. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

exay officioay

   

Russian 

  

по должности. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

po položaju. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

de oficio (as a matter of cause, automatically, craft, occupational, of one's own motion, officially, proprio motu, the Convention applies automatically). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

ex officio (as a matter of cause, officially, proprio motu), på ämbetets vägnar (officially). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

resmen (formally, officially, on the record), mevkiden ileri gelen, makamı gereği, görevi icabı, görev icabı olan. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

за посадою. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Ex Officio

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-f-f-i-i-o-o-x"

-3 letters: coiffe, office.

-5 letters: coff, coif, coof, fice, fico, fief, fife, foci.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Ex Officio


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

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HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Expressions
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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