ex officio

adjective

Definition of ex officionext
as in certified

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for ex officio
  1. certified
  2. licensed
  3. semiofficial
  4. canonical
Adjective
  • Jason Ballard is a certified business and executive coach located in Louisville, Kentucky.
    Jason Ballard, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Contact your healthcare provider and insurance carrier to evaluate your options, such as meeting with a certified diabetes care and education specialist (CDCES).
    Carisa Brewster, Verywell Health, 14 Jan. 2025
Definition of certified
Adjective
  • In most states, the gun owner retains control of the disposition of their firearms; guns typically can be stored with a licensed firearms dealer or the local police.
    Alexis Cordone, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Newsweek reached out to Claudia Giolitti-Wright, a licensed psychotherapist, to learn what not to do when trying to help.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of licensed
Adjective
  • Song said the airline has submitted all relevant information to the Transportation Ministry, the semiofficial Yonhap News Agency reported.
    Kelly Kasulis Cho, arkansasonline.com, 30 Dec. 2024
  • She was later taken to the police station, Iran's semiofficial news agency Tasnim reported.
    Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of semiofficial
Adjective
  • Her tales of power-hungry telepaths and erotic alien encounters are now canonical, in science fiction and beyond.
    Stephen Kearse, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The location was canonical: on Whitehall, opposite the Cenotaph, Britain’s most important monument to its war dead.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2025
Definition of canonical
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exoduses

ex officio

exonerate

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