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Definitions: Ex Officio |
Ex OfficioAdjective1. By virtue of an office or position; "the head of the department serves as an ex officio member of the board". Adverb1. 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. |
| Domain | Definitions |
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. | |
Synonym: Ex OfficioSynonym: by right of office (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
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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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. | ||
Expression using "ex officio": ad ex officio. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 по должности. (various references) po položaju. (various references) de oficio (as a matter of cause, automatically, craft, occupational, of one's own motion, officially, proprio motu, the Convention applies automatically). (various references) ex officio (as a matter of cause, officially, proprio motu), på ämbetets vägnar (officially). (various references) resmen (formally, officially, on the record), mevkiden ileri gelen, makamı gereği, görevi icabı, görev icabı olan. (various references) за посадою. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 78      4F 66 66 69 63 69 6F |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01111000 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110 01101001 01100011 01101001 01101111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E x   O f f i c i o |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0078      004F 0066 0066 0069 0063 0069 006F |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3990249727275697581 |
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