Meanings
adjectivepreofficial (not comparable)
- not comparablePrior to officialdom.
It breaks us from the habit of seeing preofficial life as a simple preparatory imitation of the career to come, and from thinking of literati men as if they had always been incumbent officials […]
2015, Linda Rui Feng, City of Marvel and Transformation, page 11
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APA
preofficial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preofficial
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“preofficial.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preofficial. Accessed November 2, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “preofficial,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preofficial.
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