"off the record" meaning in English

See off the record in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase}} off the record
  1. Not for publication.
    Sense id: en-off_the_record-en-prep_phrase-2l12eGvg Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English hedges, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 97 3 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 96 4 Disambiguation of English hedges: 100 0 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 96 4
  2. Unofficial.
    Sense id: en-off_the_record-en-prep_phrase-qj-n9Z~K
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: off record, off-the-record (english: in adjectival contexts only) Related terms: on the record, on record, not for attribution, on background, deep background, off the books

Alternative forms

Download JSON data for off the record meaning in English (1.6kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "off the record",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "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": "97 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "100 0",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English hedges",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "96 4",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "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"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "off record"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "english": "in adjectival contexts only",
      "word": "off-the-record"
    }
  ],
  "word": "off the record"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English hedges",
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English prepositional phrases",
    "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase"
      },
      "expansion": "off the record",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "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": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Not for publication."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "publication",
          "publication"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Unofficial."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Unofficial",
          "unofficial"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "off record"
    },
    {
      "english": "in adjectival contexts only",
      "word": "off-the-record"
    }
  ],
  "word": "off the record"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.