What is "semiofficial"

Usage examples of "semiofficial".

The Cloudy Morning was a semiofficial off-duty tavern for the Guard, a traditional place for winding down at the end of a long shift.

Morgan or the missing drugs, but she did let slip that the campaign of silence was semiofficial in origin.

A great deal was being written nationally about racial disharmony in big-city police forces, notably the Los Angeles Police Department, where ugly discrimination against blacks, both on and off the force, had had semiofficial approval from the top over many years.

Two men wearing the semiofficial blue suit of the Tonton Macoutes were lounging on the other side, their dark glasses resting in their breast pockets.

The report was made in the town of Engender, and it was, strictly speaking, semiofficial in character.

Evac coordinators would hold a semiofficial position, analogous to World War II Air Raid Wardens.

Tonight the VIP parking area was so full of official and semiofficial vehicles that you could barely see the front of the club through the flashing lights and milling people.

I suppose as a Diplomat on Rezerval business, you were not troubled with that particular semiofficial piracy?

There were criers, most yelling the semiofficial line of one or other of the ridings.

And neither was her hair drawn back in the semiofficial style of the semiofficial voluntary celibates, the superpatriots (or sim­ply sex-shy people, or dislikers of children) who surrendered their right to reproduce for the good of the ship (or their own convenience).