adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an unofficial report
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According to unofficial reports, the president had talks with Palestinian leaders.
an unofficial strike (= not organized by a trade union )
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Some workers had been sacked for taking part in unofficial strikes.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
action
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The proposal would not prevent unofficial action taken on the day without any notice.
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The union appealed to the House of Lords and the unofficial action was abandoned.
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On Friday 6 June night shift workers again took unofficial action when a mixed material containing asbestos dust spilled.
report
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Nationalists in Moldavia fought police and troops late yesterday and unofficial reports said dozens of people were injured, some seriously.
strike
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But unions would be effectively debarred from holding a strike ballot in support of workers already sacked for taking part in unofficial strikes.
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All 96 staff are out on unofficial strike .
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The unofficial strike of oil-rig workers in 1990 had as one of its major aims an improvement in safety.
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There's an unofficial strike to try and stop them closing the line.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Take Me Home, Country Road" became West Virginia's unofficial state song.
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Unofficial sources say that over 100 people were shot dead in the rioting.
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Feinstein emphasized that the trip was "an unofficial mission."
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She seems to have become the unofficial spokesman for the group.
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The Prime Minister discussed the mater with his German counterpart on an unofficial visit to his home last month.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After the official Red Square parade there were two unofficial marches in Moscow, sanctioned by the city soviet.
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An informal and unofficial market began to develop.
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And as you head out to grab lunch, it seems as if an unofficial national holiday has been declared.
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Artists who had once been considered unofficial were later accepted into the official art world and viceversa.
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Even expressways were planned as man-made barriers, the unofficial borders.
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Now Bush has regained his position as frontrunner by winning the first unofficial rounds of the campaign.
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Released 25 years ago, the recording became the unofficial anthem of my first-ever election campaign.
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This is an unobtrusive way of keeping expensive unofficial calls to the minimum.