"off the record" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "off record",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "off-the-record",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "on the record"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "on record"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "not for attribution"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "on background"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "deep background"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "off the books"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English hedges",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              67,
              81
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 July 9, Mel Holley, “How much should a station cost?”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 25:",
          "text": "RAIL spoke to many people in the course of our investigation - all off-the-record^([sic]), as no one wished to be quoted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not for publication."
      ],
      "id": "en-off_the_record-en-prep_phrase-2l12eGvg",
      "links": [
        [
          "publication",
          "publication"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Unofficial."
      ],
      "id": "en-off_the_record-en-prep_phrase-qj-n9Z~K",
      "links": [
        [
          "Unofficial",
          "unofficial"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "off the record"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English hedges",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English prepositional phrases",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "off record",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "off-the-record",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "on the record"
    },
    {
      "word": "on record"
    },
    {
      "word": "not for attribution"
    },
    {
      "word": "on background"
    },
    {
      "word": "deep background"
    },
    {
      "word": "off the books"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              67,
              81
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "2025 July 9, Mel Holley, “How much should a station cost?”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 25:",
          "text": "RAIL spoke to many people in the course of our investigation - all off-the-record^([sic]), as no one wished to be quoted.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Not for publication."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "publication",
          "publication"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Unofficial."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Unofficial",
          "unofficial"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "off the record"
}